Andrei Kirilenko Tattoo: March 2010

Songs of the Week (01/04/2010)

Here's ten songs that I've been listening to a lot lately and are worth checking out if you're not already familiar with them...

Song of the Week: The Heathers - Remember When

"Remember When" is the debut single from Dublin based duo, Heathers... Most people will recognise the song from the 2010 Discover Ireland ad... It's a cracking tune and they're from Dublin, so its always good promoting a bit of home grown music...

Other Songs This Week:

I'll definitely be posting many more song lists, because not only do I love music, but I also love lists...

New Blog - Wahey!!!

So, boredom got the better of me and I decided to give the blogging thing another go... Rather than revamping the old blog, I decided to start afresh and The Pink Banana Hypothesis was born - don't ask me why I came up with that name, I just liked it...
Pretty much for the time being, I'll be mostly posting about Music, Movies, TV Shows, Books and stuff that I like, but depending on my mood, who knows what I could end up writing...

Follow me on twitter ( http://twitter.com/cian_taaffe ) for updates on comedy gigs and whatnot or find me on Facebook...

I think that's all the formalities out of the way, so lets get this shit underway!

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Greatest Career Ever?

If I had a son, I would want him to grow up to be Jason Elam.

The long-time Broncos kicker retired today, after signing one of those one-day deals since he had a two-year stint with the Falcons. Elam referred to his career as an �awesome journey,� but it might have been one of the greatest NFL careers in history.

Now, he might not have achieved the fame of say, Joe Montana, Tom Brady or Gomer. But Elam�s resume is second-to-none when it comes to NFL players.

First off, Elam is a kicker, he�s never been hit.

He went to the University of Hawaii.

Denver is not a bad place to live. Nor is Atlanta.

Elam married a Broncos cheerleader � after lobbying the owner to get rid of the rule against fraternization with the cheerleaders � who was a former Hawaiian Tropics model (not the one pictured, though).

He won two Super Bowl rings. (And remember, he never got hit.)

He can probably actually walk (again, never been hit), and likely is really, really good at golf.

Brady has a model wife, but he had to rehab his knee. Gomer is insanely ugly. And let�s not talk about Ben Roethlisberger�s life.

So yeah, give me Elam�s career. I would take it.

American Idol: Top 10 results

Quick "American Idol" results spoilers coming up just as soon as I point out that, again, an overly-padded show wound up running past 10 o'clock, which means anyone who DVR'ed won't know if the judges bothered to use their stupid Save...

So, Katie Stevens, Tim Urban and Did Benami were the bottom three, Katie was sent to safety first, and the voters sent Didi home. She did a very strong reprise of her "Rhiannon" from the semi-finals, but the judges sure weren't going to use the Save on someone who's just been kind of hanging on since the semi-finals began.

I liked Didi a lot in Hollywood, and while she wasn't the best of this season's doll-voiced singers (that would be Lilly), she was still distinctive enough that I'd have liked to see her go longer - and certainly longer than the likes of Tim.

Meanwhile, for all of the talk that this would be a season for the ladies, we've had women eliminated every single week of the finals. We haven't had an all-female final 2 since Fantasia and Diana in season 3, and we haven't had a woman in the finale at all since Jordin Sparks won it three seasons ago. Is that just a fluke, or a sign that the "Idol" audience is trending towards people who will throw more support behind the guys, all things being equal? And if the latter, I'd say the odds of a Crystal/Siobhan finale (which weren't that great to begin with, given Siobhan's polarizing nature and recent struggles) just got lower.

What did everybody else think? And how was the results show (which I didn't put on for good until Diddy turned up) overall?

Firewall & Iceberg podcast, episode 10: Treme, Miami Medical and the V countdown clock

Another installment of the Firewall & Iceberg podcast is up, with Dan and I jumping the gun on "Treme" due to the likelihood of me being off next week (and also because it gave me the chance to tell one David Mills story that I left out of the earlier post). So stream, download, listen, etc. (the NJ.com link has all the relevant details, including the rundown)