So the Liberals have a new leader. Though it took them a long time to count the final ballot – the CBC commentators speculated that they delayed the announcement of the final result until after 6:00 to ensure that it would be broadcast on all national news channels.
I have no idea what to expect from Stéphane Dion. I liked him better than the other leadership contenders, mostly because he didn’t have any major negatives: Ignatieff supported the war in Iraq and has little political experience, Rae still generates significant hostility in Ontario, and Kennedy has no support in Quebec. The Globe and Mail, which endorsed Dion, praised him for being “the most courageous Canadian politician of his generation” and for “having mastered the art of politics”. He will need all his mastery, if he has it, as there will likely be an election sooner than later.
Yesterday, I saw “Stranger Than Fiction”. It was a good movie, though I disagree with its fundamental premise – if a middle-aged guy stops focusing on his job and learns to stop and smell the roses, he’ll wind up dating somebody as cute and attractive as Maggie Gyllenhaal. Erm, no. I wish.
But what I want to know is this: who decided on Wreckless Eric’s “The Whole Wide World” as the song that Will Ferrell plays on the guitar? Writer Zach Helm was born in 1975, director Marc Forster was born in 1969, and the song was released in 1978. How did either of them know of this song? Did they have an older brother or (sob) a parent that had a Wreckless Eric album in his or her record collection?
If you want to duplicate Harold Crick’s achievement and impress a woman by playing this song on the guitar, don’t worry – it’s really easy to play, as you only need the A and E chords. Here’s how it starts:
[E] When I was a [A] young boy
[E] My mother said to [A] me
[E] There’s only one girl in the [A] world for you
[E] And she probably lives in [A] Tahiti
[E] I’ll go the whole wide world, I’ll go the whole wide world just to [A] find her
You can probably figure out the rest – good luck!
By the way, you haven’t truly lived until you’ve heard Wreckless Eric sing “Final Taxi” – the chorus is “There’s only one destination in the final taxi”. Amen.
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