>I’ve been watching the Olympics for so many days now, I think my mind is starting to play tricks on me. Why else do I keep confusing our Olympic athletes for the celebrities we’ve been ignoring since the Games started.
Here are some of my favorites!
Skeleton Gold Medalist Jon Montgomery and Singer Glen Hansgard (Once):
Canada’s sweetheart and Ice Dancer Tessa Virtue and the always pleasant Kristen Stewart:
Figure Skating Coach Brian Orser and coolest person ever, Bruce Campbell:
Blue Rodeo’s Jim Cuddy and Norweigen curler Thomas Ulsrud:
There aren’t a lot of details yet, but Canwest just announced that a Canadian version of the popular extreme-obstacle course show will be debuting on TV Tropolis in 2011!
No audition details yet, but I think I’ll finally be able to fulfill my lifelong ambition to win this show. By life long ambition, I mean two years. But let’s face it, I would have made a kick-ass FunHouse contestant too!!!!
Last week, two vloggers in Vancouver happened to find a very nice digital camera outside one of the Olympic venues. Rather than keep it for themselves, they are doing the Canadian thing and trying to find it’s owners!
Check out the video* and see if you know who the owners of the camera. Wouldn’t it be cool if we could find them?
* Warning, most of the video is mildly to medium-ly annoying. Skip to the 2:25 mark if you want to the see footage that was found on the actual camera!
If I’ve learned one thing this week, it is that winning an Olympic medal is easy, but making yourself a trending topic on Twitter is nearly impossible.
Somehow, figure skater Joannie Rochette did both:
And finally, is anyone else still crying? I’m hoping to stop sometime on Saturday, but no promises.
I’ve never really been good at hiding my obsession with Canadian singer, Dan Mangan. He is pretty freaking awesome and if you’ve never listened to him, you are a bad person. There I said it.
Tomorrow is going to be huge day for Dan, he’ll be performing on The Today Show. That’s right, NBC’s HUGE morning show! What amazing exposure!
There doesn’t seem to be a confirmed time, but if I know TV, it wouldn’t matter anyway. So you are just going to have to watch the whole show. It will be the last day that Matt and Meredith will be broadcasting from BC, so why not?
To celebrate, Dan is giving away two singles on his website.
> Canadian Idol winners have never really found a huge amount of success. Either they disappear off the face of the earth, or they bury themselves under a pile of lame-ass scarves.
But one Idol winner seems to be bucking the trend.
When you first think of Calgary’s Melissa O’Neil, you might be inclined to think of her as a one-hit wonder from the third season of Canadian Idol. Some wouldn’t even consider that. She was also known for dating Idol runner-up Rex Goudie. Neither her relationship nor her Idol fame lasted very long.
But if you’ve been to Toronto in the past couple of years, you might know that O’Neil has slowly been building herself some music cred, which isn’t easy to do after Canadian Idol. Is it Ryan Malcom?
Many theatre fans were delighted by her performance in Mirvish’s Dirty Dancing and she recently did a show with Stage West Calgary.
But on to the really cool news: I’ve come to find out that O’Neil is now the lead female vocalist for the funkiest band in Canada, God Made Me Funky! What a freaking solid career move on Melissa’s part!
> I can’t handle another type social media. I’m so spread out, I feel like this girl I knew in high school. Actually, a lot of people knew her….
Anyway, the newest internet craze is called Chatroulette. It is a video chat website that randomly sets you up to talk to strangers. Basically it goes against everything Dateline has ever taught us. And yes, I trust Dateline more than my own parents. You should too.
Well a University of Calgary student got the shock of his life this week, when he logged into Chatroulette and ended up chatting with Ashton Kutcher.
The highlight of the conversation was when Kutcher started talking about going to the Calgary Stampede and being overwhelmed with the drunk people on the C-Train. Me and you both Kutcher, me and you both. And please, as if you weren’t one of the drunk people on the trains. I know, I always am!
> For the past couple of weeks, CBC Radio 3 has been searching for the Canada’s Best Music Festival. The list had been narrowed down to the Top 50 and then this morning, they released the new Top 20 list!
Unfortunately, my favorite festival The Harvest Jazz and Blues Festival, didn’t make the cut. There is always next year…..unless they don’t do this again next year.
Did you happen to watch last night’s Lost? Because if you did, you witnessed a little piece of Canadian nostalgia.
Remember BLT from Degrassi? He was on the first five seasons of the original series and is probably most memorable for dating a girl whose date was a big, fat racist.
BLT was played by Canadian actor Dayo Ade, who just happened to appear in the last two episodes of Lost as Justin, the new Other who was shot by super-duper crazy Claire!
Unfortunately, after last night’s show, it would seem difficult for him to come back for any more episodes, but still! One of our own Degrassi kids made it on to LOST for two episodes!
> It is 2010 and Bryan Adams is suddenly popular again!
Who saw that one coming?
We are only in February and the singer is already having one of his biggest years ever. Just last week, he got the headlining spot with Nelly Furtado during the Opening Ceremonies. The performance wasn’t life changing, but still millions of people, all around the world, realized at the same moment that Adams was indeed, still alive.
You can’t beat that sort of publicity.
Then, just days after the Opening Ceremonies, it was announced that Adams was among six Canadians to win this year’s Governor General Performing Arts Awards. If you haven’t heard of the award before, it recognizes an “outstanding lifetime contribution to Canada’s cultural life.”
This year’s other winners included actress Francoise Faucher, Edouard Lock, Robin Phillips, Walter Homburger and Buffy Sainte-Marie.
And if that wasn’t enough, this April, Bryan will be heading to St. John’s to pick up a The Allan Walters Humanitarian Award at the Juno Awards! Tell me that is not going to be the craziest party of all time?!
Again, he accomplished all of this in the first four months of 2010. How un-productive do you feel right now?
Not to bad for a guy who is only turning 51 this year!
Canada’s sweetheart and Ice Dancer Tessa Virtue and the always pleasant Kristen Stewart:
Blue Rodeo’s Jim Cuddy and Norweigen curler Thomas Ulsrud:
