For the records

• It's been a terribly uneventful week[how boring when you have nothing to write about in your blog!]. I was however informed by my manager at work, that due to staff changes and because I am only in a contract position[client service rep], it is likely that I will be 'demoted' to my base position[clerical]. I'm keeping my fingers crossed that there is some last minute reprieve. Well, enough about that.



• So lately the Toronto Raptors have been stinking up the joint, save for the last gave in which they barely squeezed out a 81-80 win over Milwaukee. And surprisingly the win was by a free throw from Mo' Pete, who's name[along with Jerome Williams, Alvin Williams, and Antonio Davis] been the subject of trade talks. But considering who Toronto could get[Jalen Rose, Antawn Jamison], maybe a trade would benefit Toronto. Only time will tell... [Along with the basketball pool I'm in and the friday night basketball games I'm playing this is the most I've ever felt like a sports junkie; I like playing sports but I've never been a fanatic about watching it on tv or keeping up with the stats; let's hope I don't become a face painter a la 'Puddy' on Seinfeld :)]



• Over the past week I've discovered how utterly wonderful The Shins 'Oh, Inverted World" CD is. I hear some Brian Wilson influences, maybe a little Robin Hitchcock, and the vocals sometimes remind me a lot of Carl Newman's[of the New Pornographers] voice. It's funny but I had the CD for over a year and I never gave it a good listen until this week.



• Music find of the week: The Smiths "Louder than Bombs" on vinyl !!!!!!; $3 at my local flea market.



• I happened to transcribe the lyrics[to the best of my ability] for the Pernice Brothers' song "Weakest Shade of Blue"; surprisingly I could not find any Pernice Brothers' lyrics on the 'Net; I figured out the guitar chords for the song recently; this is such a damn catchy song!; Joe Pernice is such a good song writer!; please support him and catch his show the next time he rolls into your town. The lyrics I transcribed are below:
  
  Pernice Brothers "Weakest Shade of Blue"
  
  Won't you come away with me
  and begin something we can understand
  I'm lonely as the Irish Sea
  and as livid as the sand
  
  Could it be so wrong, so wrong
  
  Won't you come and bury me
  Would you light me up like a lemon grove
  Save me from this dreamy life
  To the hardest love you can ever know
  
  Could it be so wrong, so wrong
  Could it be so wrong, so wrong
  
  Well don't cry baby
  Please don't cry baby
  I'll be tender till the day I die
  
  This love I have for you
  Is terrible and true
  How the sheltered, loveless life
  Fades into the weakest shade of blue
  
  It's ruined us, I'm true
  How the sheltered, loveless life
  Fades into the weakest shade of blue
  
  the weakest shade of blue
  the weakest shade of blue
  the weakest shade of blue
  the weakest shade of blue