The Final Countdown

I was watching overtime of the Buffalo Sabres/New York Rangers game today, and at some point they played "The Final Countdown" in Madison Square Garden--on the organ. It was a glorious moment for one of the best worst songs ever. This prompted a conversation with a friend over other appropriate instruments (apart from the original synthesizer) worthy of playing Europe's greatest hit. We came up with the following list:

1) Accordion
2) Kazoo
3) Bagpipes

I am totally open to any other creative ideas. Also any thoughts on "The Final Countdown" in general and its inspired use in Arrested Development in particular.

One Year

Last night I celebrated the one year anniversary of meeting my boyfriend. We cheesily retraced our steps to our seemingly random meeting. He'd gone with some friends to the SMU MFA show in Mockingbird Station and followed the event up with a drink at Trinity Hall. I was at Trinity Hall to celebrate with a friend who had just finished the MCAT. By chance, these two groups of friends happened to overlap, and the boyfriend ended up sitting next to me because he'd heard me mention something about Kansas (he's from Kansas as well). 4 hours later he left with my phone number, and the rest is more or less history. (Is one year history?)

Anyway, the hows and whys are unimportant. What's amazing is that one year both seems like a very short and very long period of time. I can't believe it was a whole year ago, but at the same time, it's hard to remember what it was like before I met him.

This has been a brief sappy and oddly personal break from the hockey blogging to which I have earlier subjected all 1.5 readers of this blog.

Series 1, Game 3

Stars lost game three last night, as they are wont to lose games when I am personally in attendance. They played 2 good periods, then couldn't complete a pass to save their playoff lives in the third. Then overtime, and anyone who follows playoff hockey knows what happens when the Stars end up in overtime (hint: they lose).

It was unfortunate, but the Canucks must still win 2 more games. Stars just need to win 3 more before then.

Series 1, Games 1 & 2

I'm spending far too much time watching hockey lately, so any blog updates will be probably be playoff related. I apologize.

Game 1:
Stars lose 5-4 in the 4th overtime. I was up until 2:30 am b/c by the time I fully realized how late it was I was too committed to give up. What if I went to bed and missed it after investing hours upon hours in watching the game?

Of course, I wish I would have just gone to bed when they lost. 3 hours of sleep is insufficient. Was so tired the next day at work that I drank the horrible work coffee.

Game 2:
Turco shuts out the Canucks on home ice.

Now it gets interesting...game 3 on Sunday.

Stanley Cup Playoffs

It's Stanley Cup playoff time! Pretty excited, even though I have this horrible sinking feeling in my stomach when I think that perhaps Playoff Marty will show up in goal instead of Regular Season Marty and the Stars season will be over in the next week or so. [perish the thought!]

Regardless, it's good times. Even if you're not a hockey fan, you should check some games out. They are being televised sporadically (as are all NHL games) on Versus, NBC, and/or your local television affiliates if you are so fortunate as to share a city with a playoff bound team. Before you complain that you don't understand hockey, do some Wikipedia research on the rules and flip on the TV to immerse yourself. Trust me, it's a better way to spend your weekend afternoons than watching whatever terrible movie TBS is showing on infinite repeat.

I'll be at the first Stars home playoff game Sunday night, representing Zubie and sitting next to the recently indoctrinated boyfriend.