I Hate Commercials At The Theatre... Except These Ones

I went with my friend Sara to the 2004 Cannes Advertising Festival showing at the Princess Cinema last night. Basically, it's two hours of the years best (that usually means funniest) commercials. I went for the first time two years ago, and thought it was absolutely great and wanted to go last year, but didn't remember to go see it until it was already gone. This year, I wouldn't make that same mistake... and I wasn't dissapointed. There was a good representation of Canadian commercials this year, which is good. You would have recognised the Kit Kat commercial with the male model that probably reminds you of Zoolander. There was also a good showing by the Bug Light commercials (steaming cup of coffee). Anyway, here are four of the most memorable commercials (that I could also find on the internet) (Keep in mind, these are videos, hence very large. You should only view them with a highspeed connection or with multitudes of patience):

- Heineken
- Nike
- Silva (I had actually heard this joke before, but it was still funny to see it on screen)
- And my personal favourite. (I has some problems playing this one and had to download an MPEG encoder from here)

edit: I found another source for the Nike ad. It seems some of these don't work well with Internet Explorer (they worked fine in FireFox for me). The Nike one should be fine now, but I'd try to save the others to your harddrive first if you still have problems.

Multiple Intelligence? I'd settle for one.

I did the Multiple Intelligence Quiz after I saw it on Brock's blog... what can I say, I'm a natural born follower. Anyway, here are the results...

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The Seven Intelligence Areas
Linguistic: 4
Logical-Mathematical: 7
Spatial: 7
Bodily-Kinesthetic: 6
Musical: 11
Interpersonal: 5
Intrapersonal: 4

A Short Definition of your Highest Score

Musical - the ability to understand and develop musical technique, to respond emotionally to music and to work together to use music to meet the needs of others, to interpret musical forms and ideas, and to create imaginative and expressive performances and compositions. Possible vocations that use the musical intelligence include technician, music teacher, instrument maker, choral, band, and orchestral performer or conductor, music critic, aficionado, music collector, composer, conductor, and individual or small group performer.
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So, apparently I'm musically intelligent. I'm certainly letting that talent go to waste. Perhaps I should do something about that.

My New Jeep

Whether or not you knew it, I kinda want a Jeep. Don't ask why, I just do, ok? However, I think I just found the exact one I want. Click here to check it out.

Funny Because It's True

This speaks for itself. 

Household Tip of the Day

How to keep your cats soft and fluffy. 

Talk About Unprepared

So, for the last month I've been looking for more batteries to go into my Panasonic battery charger that I bought with my digital camera. I don't need more batteries to go with my camera, I now need batteries to go with the new wireless PS2 and Gamecube controllers I have. Anyway, back to the fact that I can't find any at Future Shop, where I bought the charger in the first place. Finally, I cracked and actually asked a salesman there. He informs me that they were giving away free extra batteries with their chargers over the holiday shopping period. They sold so many that they have about $4000 worth on back order. Unbelieveable! Anyway, so I ask when they'll be in, and he says, "hopefully sooner than later". Well, no freakin' kidding. That doesn't help. At least the batteries that came with my controllers haven't run out yet. But dangit, I want my batteries.

Uh-oh... Do I Love TV Again?

Ok, first off I have to say how freakin' awesome the show "24" is. It's like a high action, high drama one hour movie with 23 sequels, each released one week after the next. Awesome! But anyway, the point is that I used to be a real TV junkie back in the day, but for the last few years I haven't bothered much with TV, except for Leafs games, Survivor, and 22 Minutes. But now, all of a sudden there's all this great stuff to watch. Besides 24, there's Lost, Enterprise, The Daily Show, and of course there's always been the Simpsons. So yeah, I'm watching TV again. The really good thing about it is the fact that I have an HD PVR. You're jealous...

X-Station 2?

There's nothing new in my life. Hardly even worth updating my blog for. Well, nothing.... except my NEW GAMECUBE!!!! Wooo! Serious fun mulitplayer action coming your way! All I have right now is Mario Kart: Double Dash, but I think that may grow in the near future. And I'll need a couple more controllers. Boo Yeah! 

My Flying Car Is On Back Order

Ok, so happy 2005, I suppose. It's a brand new year! Wow! There's so much that makes this week different from last week. Oh wait, no, I lied. The only thing different is the fact that for the next few weeks I'll forget what date to write on my cheques. Other than that, dates are relative values counting up from a arbitrary point. I know, that the years are supposed to be based off of when Christ was born, but they underestimated that by about 30 years or so. And then there's the people who argued a few years back that the year 2000 wasn't the new millenium and all those celebrations should have been a year later because there was no year zero... all I say is move your starting year back one, and then you got your millenium. Like I said, dates are relative and arbitrary. Nothing new and exciting will happen just because the year has changed. I look out my window, and it's the same scenery. Weren't we supposed to have flying cars by now? Like back in the year 2000? What happened to that? I'm bitter.