Blink Kitty Love

FIVE RING FEVER

Mood:  Hockey for most of the week when not Mood:  Curling or Mood:  Something on ice or snow (or zipping through the fog) so we thought we'd share some of our favorite Olympic moments with you.  And to keep TK from being considered too anti-Canadian, nothing that happened during the Opening Ceremonies is eligible although we loved the First People's presence, dancing + stamina.

Tammy:  still swooning over Scott Moir and Tessa Virtue, who skated beautifully to capture the ice dancing gold.

Tinker:  Kelly Clark's first qualifying run, Torah Bright's gold medal winning glory and anytime Shaun White was in the air.

Ty:  Bode Miller's return to form and his one of every medal color collection.

TK:  Ryan Miller in the goal and USA Men's Hockey exceeding expectations.  Tonight, though, women's hockey where we're not really sure who to root for but we're betting on excellent game.

Note:  Don't dip your pizza in the chocolate milkshake (or the coffee or the mocha latte), save it for the garlic butter (Garlic = Healthy, right?)

MOOD: VANCOUVER

The band is in an Olympic frenzy -- and not about Percy Jackson (we would have specified half Olympian, and although Tammy is always glad to see Pierce Brosnan in a movie, which is why we had to sit through -- well, you don't want to know and we REALLY want to forget it, the once every four years sporting spectacle takes precedence -- and TK hasn't finished the book).  No, we'll take athletes from around the world, sport, snow, NOISE, and Canada.  O Canada.  So in honor of the 2010 Winter Games we'll give you a quick run down of our favorite Canadian musicians + Olympic sports.  Yours?

Tammy   sport:  Ice Dancing   mood:  in need of a partner

"and every day you gaze upon the sunset 
with such love and intensity 
why it's...it's almost as if 
if you could only crack the code" 

"Calling All Angels"  Jane Siberry and kd lang

Ty   sport:  Freestyle skiing  mood:  colorful

"On the walls of the day 
In the shade of the sun 
We wrote down 
Another vision of us"

"Challengers"  The New Pornographers

TK  sport:  bobsled     mood:  the opposite of wandering the wide open spaces

"A vial of hope and a vial of pain
In the light they both looked the same
Poured them out on into the world
On every boy and every girl"

"Neon Bible"  The Arcade Fire

Tinker   sport:  SNOWBOARDING    mood:  whistling, cheerful and bounding through the snow

"There's a war inside of me

Do I cause new heartbreak to write a new broken song

Do I push it down or let it run me right into the ground"

"You Wouldn't Like Me"  Tegan And Sara

SO WHAT ARE YOU WEARING?

And because we can't be serious all the time or talk about food all the time, we've decided to talk clothes.  Specifically, bands/albums named after articles of clothing.  Because it's fun.  And amuses us.  We like being amused while waiting for our pizza to be delivered.  Know any we missed? There's a slice in it for you.

Tammy   mood: it's all a game, complete with a swell dance beat

"Love me love me
Say that you love me
Fool me fool me
Go on and fool me"

"Lovefool"  The Cardigans

TK  mood:  wearing this shirt

"I like your mom

And it's not bad

I want to marry her 

And be your dad."

"I Like Your Mom"  The Bouncing Souls from the album The Good, The Bad and The Argyle

Tinker  mood:  mood

"Got answers for everyone - endless excuses
Not habit for anyone cos i'm trying to break your click track heart
Seen a vision of perfect grace - airbrushed and lifeless
All contempt and aftertaste, it's like i'm waiting for the scars to heal"

"Loretta Young Silks"  The Sneaker Pimps

Ty  mood: fantastic

"Seems that I was busy doing something close to nothing

But different than the day before

That's when I saw her, Ooh, I saw her

She walked in through the out door, out door"

"Raspberry Beret"  Prince and The Revolution*

*Ty says this is the perfect clothing related song and so takes the traditional TK slot of NOT FOLLOWING along with the group.  

WOMEN WHOSE MOVIES WE LOVE

Yes, we've been hibernating.  It's winter, we're mammals, get over it.  We've been indoors, keeping warm, with a stack of DVDs and an even bigger stack of cold cuts, french bread, condiments, trimmings and everything you need to make a Dagwood sandwich because, well, he is the master.

And in honor of Kathryn Bigelow's historic Director's Guild of America win for directing Hurt Locker, we're going to pick our favorite movies by female directors (the good thing is women directors can't be covered in 4 or even 5 movies; the bad thing is for big budget productions, it wouldn't take many more). So congratulations to Kathryn Bigelow, good luck with Oscars and we hope you inspire more women to bring their visions to a screen near us.

Ty  mood: feeling fine

Strange Days  directed by Kathryn Bigelow

Tammy  mood:  colorfully exotic

Frida   directed by Julie Taymor

Tinker  mood:  armed, dangerous, darn cute, etc.

D.E.B.S.  directed by Angela Robinson

TK  mood:  known for other things (and still can never just pick one)

Yentl  directed by Barbra Streisand

A League Of Their Own  directed by Penny Marshall