Toronto - While it’s not really raining, the demise of my Pittsburgh Penguins have me in a rather depressed mood. So here are some tunes for those dark days of doom and gloom, when all else has seemed to fail. and Chris Osgood/Johan Franzen dives like a little girl, taking swimming lessons for the first time.

By the way, the Detroit Red Wings are staying at

Renaissance Hotel
107 6th Street
Pittsburgh, PA, 15222

Picture courtesy of The Pens Blog, pretty much the best hockey site.

Cat Power - Live in Bars
Suede - Where the Pigs Don’t Fly
Morcheeba - Way Beyond
Beck - Lost Cause
Starflyer59 - Fell in Love at 22
Sufjan Stevens - John Wayne Gacy Jr
Jenny Lewis - Rise Up With Fists
Pulp - Like A Friend
Spain - Nobody Has to Know
Joan as Police Woman - The Ride
The Smiths - I know Its Over
Black Box Recorder - Goodnight Kiss

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Of course, this is all moot when the Penguins kick the Red Wings ass tonight at the Igloo.
GO PENS GO!

Toronto - Planet Earth. You live there. I live there. Most people do. What’s extraordinary about this thing is that its so big, and seeing as how we mostly confine ourselves to the cities and the streets, we sometimes forget how big and wonderful our world is.

Enter BBC, aside from making quirky funny comedies, they also like to dabble in this thing called ‘documentaries’. A few years ago, they made one about oceans, called ‘Blue Planet‘. Well about one or two years ago, they came out with another documentary, about Earth. It’s called ‘Planet Earth‘. I am sure you have heard of it, most people are like ‘Planet Earth man..it looks amazing on HD’. Well the question I pose to you is..have you actually seen it? I hadn’t until recently, when my friend Gary lent it to me/I took it from his house.

Man. It is freaking off the charts. Off the hizzle. The footage they get of animals is absolutely amazing. They use some crazy cameras with crazy zooms. I swear, if I had this lens, I would be able to zoom in on Lindsay Lohan doing cocaine in an New York apartment from my bedroom window. There are like 11 episodes in total, each feature a different part of Earth - Caves, Deserts, Mountains, etc. Every show is breath taking, every show has a ‘holy sh*t’ moment. Not in the Jack Bauer-must make a moral decision- way either, the footage is just completely amazing. They get rare animals too.

Here is a clip of the Snow Leopard, apparently, first time ever it’s been capture in the wild. The hunt is crazy.

Theres a lot others too, like African Wild Dogs working as a team and flanking left and right to capture an Impala. I was watching that and I was like WTF, thats what we do in Halo! Shiet. Anyways, I highly recommend watching it. It’ll make you want to drop everything you have and travel to these remote places of the Earth just to bathe in its beauty.

Note: Where there’s life, theres deaths. If you are one of those cutesy puppie people who don’t enjoy seeing a baby elephant getting ripped apart by lions, there are some scenes not for you. However, you can always tell when this happens because

a) the lord of the rings soundtrack kicks it into high gear
b) you can always tell its coming by the narrator, it’ll be something like

“The plains are fruitful and vast, but not all who goes here, are here for fun”
“The babies on this mountain playfully jump about on the rocks..however, death is always lurking”.

Classic.

also, dont get US version, Sig Weaver is no narrator compared to the british guy.

5/5

In honor of the Snow Leopard, here is a Cat Power song called the Leopard and the Lamb, off something called the ‘White Session’.

 

 Cat Power - The Leopard and the Lamb [3:17m]: Play Now

From Wikipedia

Eagles are large birds of prey which inhabit mainly the Old World, with only two species (the Bald Eagle and Golden Eagle) found in North America. They are members of the bird order Falconiformes , family Accipitridae, and belong to several genera which are not necessarily closely related to each other in any sort of way.

Eagles are differentiated from other birds of prey mainly by their larger size, more powerful build, and heavier head and bill. Most eagles are larger than any other raptors apart from the vultures. Like all birds of prey, eagles have very large powerful hooked beaks for tearing flesh from their prey, strong legs, and powerful talons. They also have extremely keen eyesight to enable them to spot potential prey from a very long distance. This keen eyesight is primarily contributed by their extremely large pupils which cause minimal diffraction (scattering) of the incoming light.

What do Eagles eat?

1. Deer

2. Slothes

What Eats Eagles?

1. Cougars

NO, not those ones..these cougars:

That is all there is for todays class.

man, this is AMAZING.

i love nature shows..reminds you how cruel the world can be.

Damn, hornets vs praying mantis (kinda gory)

dont watch the end of this, although the guy looks like japanese chris murphy. (man the part at the end of this video is cringe worthy)

So as I was reading my google reader feed, i come across some article about a dude who swam the Amazon.

dude who swam amazon

and i think the post i read was deadspin.com although i am too lazy to look it up, anyways, they pointed me to this species of animal that exists in the amazon.

Toothpick Fish

After reading the wikipedia thing on it, I am now never swimming in the Amazon.

Here is something about it, with great acting too, mind you.

theres a pretty good pun in the clip.