Cold As Ice

Just finished watching the Olympic coverage of the women’s ice skating short program, it was probably so far the best/most compelling event shown during the games (of course this won’t matter unless the free skate is also good).

I think I may have caught a break here also - thanks to the Golf Match Play championships there is no PTI on for the next few days, so I probably can stay away from ESPN long enough to avoid seeing the results before the coverage airs.

This way there might actually be some drama and unknown intrigue in watching the free skate on Thursday evening.

Now I know statements like the following are a double-edged sword, but after much debate I’m deciding to announce to everyone to please avoid telling me the results of the ice skating before I see it on television Thursday evening. This wasn’t an easy decision to come to…obviously now that I’ve stated my preference to not be told anything I’ve opened myself up to 2 possibilities that will ruin my goals a) someone will deliberately tell me - which would just be mean b) someone would accidentally tell me either because they forgot that i’m in a different time zone or they remembered that I was interested in the event but forgot that I didn’t want to discuss it until after the fact.

I’m sure some of you are saying, I shouldn’t have said anything at all - thereby providing the shroud of disinterest which presumably would stop anyone from bringing up the results of the women’s ice skating in conversation/email…and you might be right…However, I decided it was better to state my desire not to know then be told as oppossed to not wanting to know without saying so and be told (it was close though, I actually thought about it and discussed it for about 15 minutes).

In other ice related news, I’m about halfway through the debut album from the Arctic Monkeys (who are from England so really the name is the only thing ice related - eventhough I’m not actually sure there are such things as monkeys in the arctic. It could just be one of those clever indie rock names that really isn’t anything but a bunch of words thrown together designed to sound clever. I can’t play an instrument or sing very well, but if I could do either of these two things and I started an indie rock band I would name it Mogadishu Pancake Explosion. But, since I can’t I settled for using this as the name of my Ipod, which is where most of my indie music now resides). So far I really like the album.

Thinking about the Arctic Monkeys and the ice skating made me think about Vanilla Ice and his album Cold As Ice (hence the title of this post), and also Snow and his album 12″ Of Snow (which I now realize has nothing to do with the weather conditions outside).

Do any of you remember Snow - he was the guy that sang that song Informer. He was Canadian but he sounded like he was from the Caribbean. I really liked that song, I remember coming home from school and putting on MTV to see if they were gonna play the video (which they always did - this was in 1992 which was before I realized that MTV just keeps playing the same videos over and over again).

Here are the lyrics to the song:

What’s up man hey yo what’s up
Yeah what’s goin’ on here
Sick an’ tired of five-oh runnin’ up on the block here
You know what I’m sayin’
Yo Snow they came around here lookin’ for you the other day
Word word bust it

CHORUS:
Informer you no say daddy me Snow me I’ll go blame
A licky boom boom down
Detective mon said daddy me Snow me stab someone down the lane
A licky Boom Boom Down.

CHORUS.

Police them come an’ now they blow down me door
One him come crawl through through my window
So then they put me in the back the car at the station
From that point on me reach my destination
When the destination reached it was the east detention
Where them whipped down me pants looked up me bottom so

CHORUS.

Bigger they are they think they have more power
They’re on the phone me say that on (every) hour
Me for want to use it once an’ now me call me lover
Lover who I’ll be callin is the one Tammy
An’ me love her in me heart down to my belly
Yes me daddy me Snow me I feel cool an’ deadly
As the one MC Shan an’ the one daddy Snow
Together we-a love ‘em as a Tor-Na-Do

CHORUS.

Listen for me you better listen for me now (x2)
When me rockin’ the microphone me rock it steady
Yes sir daddy me Snow me are the article don
But in the in an’ the out of a dance them they say where you come from
People them say you come from Jamaica
But me born an’ raised in the ghetto that’s the one I want you to know
Pure black people mon that’s all I mon know
Yeah me shoes are tear up an’ me toes used to show
Where me born in on the one Toronto so

CHORUS.

Come with a nice young lady.
Intelligent yes she’s gentle an’ irie
Everywhere me go me never left her at all
Yes its daddy Snow me are the roam dance mon
Roam between a dancin’ in a in a nation-a
You never know say daddy me Snow me are the Boom Shakata
Me never lay-a down flat in that one cardboard box
Yes say me Daddy me Snow me I’ll go reachin’ at the top so

CHORUS.

Why would he (x2)

Me sittin’ ’round cool with my dibbie dibbie girl
Police knock my door lick up my pal
Rough me up an’ I can’t do a thing
Pick up my line when my telephone ring
Take me to the station black up my hands
Trail me down ‘cuz I’m hangin’ with the Snowman
What I’m gonna do I’m backed an’ I’m trapped
Slap me in the face an’ took all o’ my gap
They have no clues an’ they wanna get warmer
But Shan won’t turn informer

CHORUS.

Man, what a good song. I wonder what Snow is up to these days…

I shall ask Wikipedia…okay, here we go…

Snow (born Darrin O’Brien on October 30, 1968 in Toronto (North York), Ontario) is an award-winning Canadian reggae musician. His 1992 debut album was 12 Inches of Snow. MC Shan produced the entire album, apart from one track which was produced by John Ficarrotta. Ficarrotta and Shan also worked on Snow’s second album, Murder Love, which also featured production work by Junior Reid, Hurby “LuvBug” Azor, and others, as well as guest appearances by Junior Reid, Ninjaman, HalfPit and others. His single “Informer”, featuring MC Shan, is one of the largest-selling reggae records of all time and was a #1 hit in the United States.

Although Snow’s subsequent albums performed poorly, he returned to the Canadian pop charts in 2000 with “Everybody Wants to Be Like You”, from the album Mind on the Moon.

Snow is a relative of Barenaked Ladies member Ed Robertson.

Wow…he’s related to one of the Barenaked Ladies guys, that seems really odd. If I had a game show that would definitely be used as a question (if any of you have or know of anyone who has a game show feel free to use it).

Alright, time for me to go to sleep…