Rockband might be the most fun I've ever had playing a video game. This is our 'power rock trio' rehearsing for our world tour - which is as close as i'll ever come to being a rock star. We still need a name for our band - please leave suggestions in the comment section. That's me in the middle rocking out on the fake plastic Fender Strat. Image taken from our super nerdy in office web cam.

For the first time in my blogging 'career' I've been tagged in a 'meme'. Actually, it probably isn't the first time, but I think it might be the first one I will have actually responded to.

Instructions:

1. Pick up the nearest book ( of at least 123 pages).
2. Open the book to page 123.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the next three sentences.
5. Tag five people.

Results:

Day 97. It's a Tuesday afternoon in December, but I feel like I've just experienced my first real Sabbath. Let me explain: The doorknobs in our apartment fall off on an alarmingly regular basis. They're mercurial little suckers.

That little tidbit is from AJ Jacobs book - The Year of Living Biblically, which I just finished reading. It's a good read - quite funny and a little inspiring in parts - definitely recommended.

Since Mark suggested I might add a little Canadian flair to this meme, I decided I should pick up the 'Canadian' book that is closest to me as well - here are the results of that:

Terry's love of hockey was nearly bottomless. Wayne Gretzky and Bobby Orr visited Terry at the Foxes' home, and Tiger Williams visited him while he was in Royal Columbian Hospital in New Westminster. The hockey sticks on these pages were presented to Terry by Tiger Williams, Darryl Sittler, the Montreal Canadians and the Vancouver Canucks.

That comes from my favorite author [who also happens to be Canadian] Douglas Coupland, from his book Terry - which is written about the life of Terry Fox - one of the most inspiring Canadians ever. Interestingly enough, there were only 3 sentences on page 123, and they are the ones included above. The subject matter doesn't get much more Canadian than that!

Now comes the hard part, finding friendly bloggers who actually read my site, that might respond.

I'll tag my good friend Rodney at glasseyerod.com - even though I know he is much too busy with his brand new son to respond.

Next up will be Ben at occasionallywright.typepad.com. He just finished covering the big NHL All Star weekend in Atlanta, so he's probably looking for his next blogging challenge. Well here it is.

Third up is my buddy Aaron. He and his lovely family are in Kenya serving as missionaries, so I am sure he has all the time in the world to respond to my silly little blogging meme. That is if they have electricty this week.

I do believe those might be the only 3 people who actually read my blog that have their own blogs. Other than my co-workers - though if I tagged any of them, I would be mocked and ridiculed - which is still likely the case just for responding to this one.

If I look hard enough, I might be able to base my new movie, "The Whammy Bar Kid" on a true story

I went to see Juno on the weekend - this post isn't going to be a review of the movie - other than it was a really great movie.  This has more to do with somewhat of a cultural phenomena that I noted during the movie previews. Of the 3 movie promos that were shown at the beginning of the movie, 2 were of the 'dance movie' variety:

How She Move

Step Up 2 the Streets

Both of these movies are of the "down on their luck attractive 20 somethings overcome major life obstacles by dancing their way though the hardship, thus finding love and happiness - and an awesome high paying career as a dance instructor and/or music/dance video producer."

Mind you, I haven't seen either of these movies - nor will I... Ever. I am a little confused as to how people actually get money to make movies like this - but with the success of TV shows like "Dancing With the Stars" and "So You Think You Can Dance", I guess it's not really that surprising - popular culture sells - even if it is crap that I don't like.

So all of this got me thinking, and I have decided to capitalize on another popular cultural phenom and write a movie based on the uber popular Guitar Hero franchise. My movie will be called "The Whammy Bar Kid", and here is the plot:

A down on his luck attractive 20 something [I'm presently in talks with Shia LeBeouf and/or Michael Cera to play the main character] overcomes major life obstacles by rising to the top of the underworld Guitar Hero circuit. As the popularity of the video game series rises, so does our underdogs social ranking - eventually taking him into the worlds spotlight - where he meets the love of his life [Scarlett Johansson or Natalie Portman] - as well as his fake guitar playing nemesis [Daniel Radcliffe - he is totally ready to play a bad guy]. Our 'Guitar Hero' aka 'The Whammy Bar Kid', battles through financial hardship and a repetitive strain injury to win the girl, and also gets a job designing video games and compiling movie soundtracks.

Things my movie has going for it:

1. Corporate sponsorship - product placement galore.
2. Young talent - todays hottest stars with todays hottest products.
3. Everyone loves Guitar Hero.
4. Best.Soundtrack.Ever.

I'm looking for potential partnerships for productions costs etc - any major movies studio heads reading this, please leave your name and a contact number in the comments.