This Week in Canadian News

Well, so far our Olympic showing is sort of decent but still short of the 17 medals we picked up in Salt Lake 4 years ago... is it realistic to even think we may top that? Our best medal hopefuls are on the brink of losing out (i.e. curling, men's hockey)... although we are guaranteed at least a silver in women's hockey. Speaking of which, what an upset for the USA... I guess it had to happen that either the US or Canada would fall at some point and it probably is good that it happened in this year's Olympic show down because of the criticism the sport was attracting. And of course, it's always better to watch Canada keep up the domination. Here's to sending good vibes to Team Canada for tomorrow's game against Sweden *crosses fingers*.

This week the Juno nominations were also announced and while I never watch the Junos and could actually care less about who wins them, I was disgusted that Nickelback was given SIX nominations -- the most for any one act this year. I'm going to pray for a miracle that in the categories where either Neil Young or Michael Buble are nominated against said band, that they win instead. Nickelcrap is still playing the same shitty tunes they've been producing forever now. I'm surprised they even bother coming up with new lyrics. I know I've mentioned this phenomenon way back in the day on here so I won't really dwell on it.
Back when I was still working at the ossuary with N. in the autumn we set out our musical boundaries for radio listening in the van and determined that a radio station change was necessary if either Nickelback or Our Lady Peace was put on (there were other bands on the list too, but they are currently irrelevant to this post).
Some days were really difficult because stations would be playing the same songs from the same bands at the same time. In that situation, we just turned to 680 News with the hope of catching Traffic and Weather on the ones. At least that was more entertaining than letting our ears bleed and we got to bitch about how fucking cold it was outside as determined by the Weather Network.
Anyhow to get more to the point of this post, I'm just disappointed that a band like Nickelback still gets critical respect. We should exile them on principle of destroying Canadian music cred alone. And of course, Rolling Stone did once vote Chad Kroeger the ugliest man in rock and roll, which says a lot given how many fugly guys are in bands out there.