2010 Men's Ice Hockey Olympic Rosters

Great to see Toews, Keith, and Seabrook all making the Canada team. That roster is ridiculous and should have no excuse for destroying every country this year. Predictions for the U.S.A. team??? JR makes a return!?!?!?

http://www.iihf.com/channels10/olympics-2010/rosters.html


G.B.A!!!

Are you at work?

If no, rock an update about home adventures during the holidays. Let's see, on this day almost every year we are still hopeful that NYE will somehow end up matching expectations. Then 31 rolls around and it's all "Is Cozzens having people over?" So what of it. Where to this year?

(The exception, of course, is Mitch's party. Evan fired a Champagne cork in my face and Mitch said I could "take any rug in the house".)

Skiing out in Utah ruled this past week. Not a ton of new snow but they got a pretty good dumping in early December. We had a great Christmas even though I think I broke ol' Mike's iPhone. (Bobby, can you fix?)

Coop, what are your Sun Valley plans this season? If you say March, I may put my hand up = invite myself.

Do your damndest,
Klatt

6 reasons Santa is a man

He shows up late. Eats your cookie. Empties his sack & only comes once. Calls you a Ho & leaves when you're asleep.

Happy holidays!

merry christmas

hope everyone's having a great day - looking forward to you all re-gifting me everything worthwhile that's come your way. if you check this today, or anytime in the next couple days - i think it might be nice for you to drop a quick line to the wittys. okay cool bye have fun without me at home

snapucation

I thought you all would like a little snap 101 being the holidays and all.

Anybody want to hang out tonight?

RIP High School Destination, Actually Shopping at a Store

So I Google texted to find Dr Wax's #, so as to hit up the old stomping ground and pick up some holiday gifts, but only the one that showed up was the one in Hyde Park. aka the one you always see on the L. Then I 411'd it, and this nice 411 lady searched and searched, and came up empty handed.
Well, I found out it's closed.
I'm pretty bummed.
Gone are the days of getting high and parusing through their indie rock section. Gone is another reason to get out of the house and go somewhere with friends.

• Where's Gryll going to get more posters to put in his basement?
• Are the days of looking through CD stacks over?
  
• Where is Mike going to finally trade in his complete Collective Soul catalogue?
  
• Where is Bobby going to find the newest Jam bands?
  
• Where is Sherman going to buy more Dispatch?
  
• Where is Zach going to make an ass out of himself?
  
• Where are Andy and Ross going to buy their newfangled Rap Discs?
  
• Where is Galleon's Lap/Chesten Mayfield going to sell 48Hrs? (More importantly, when is the band getting back together?)

Can't live in the past, I mean iTunes is going to get awesome once they start selling porn...but what about that guy behind the counter who stood twenty feet above you both physically, and pretentiously?

I guess vinyl collecting is making a comeback. But don't let your Mom get rid of those "Mike" CD booklets full of gold, the laws of Trend mean CD's will be back. If they don't disintegrate first.
RIP Dr. Wax on Sherman. I blew a lot of lunch money at your store.



At least the Dr. beat out Tower.

jokes, ergo laughs

also, it's my job to read things like this and get excited about it

WAAAANTED, dead or aliiiiive

If you haven't heard the story about Colton Harris-Moore, learn yourself about today's most wanted teenage bandit. Time has the story.

a very satisfying click

http://www.1northshore.com/

SI Vault

Twitter does a lot of annoying things but sometimes it comes up big.

Follow http://twitter.com/si_vault

Brand Recognition

Überdousche by Polo

Klatt's Hannukah Present to You

Monsters of Folk, check it out. Big ups to David.

Let's get some music rec's going. 'Twas a year for animal-bands in my book. Grizzly Bear, Department of Eagles, Animal Collective, and Phoenix all steadily paced me through the year (not to mention Fleet Foxes who still frequent the head-phones).

Colbert

Colbert lands on SI.

Alex/Andy, any chance you make it up to Vancouver during February. Possible big-seller: Wilco plays a huge free show in a downtown park on that Saturday, Feb. 13. All-comers welcome. Floor space available.

SI has the 2000s greatest NHL performances. Spoiler: Hawks six-goals unanswered comeback in October makes the cut.

Two independent thought alarms in one day? Willie, remove all the colored chalk from the classrooms.

IDEAS IDEAS IDEAS any favorites (besides the neon, bioluminescent dog)?

Shameless Self Promotion

So I've been working for this small production company in Seattle that's flying to Copenhagen to do some filming, and they've entrusted me with promoting it.
I highly recommend you follow me/Evergreenfilm on Twitter (http://twitter.com/Evergreenfilm), fan us on Facebook (which several of you awesomes already did, thanks!, http://bit.ly/4AuNdB), and to watch all their videos over and over again to inflate the number of channel views.
Apparently they will be interviewing Governator in the next couple of days. You know if there's anyone to take out 100,000 earth loving protesters, it's John Matrix.

It was in my head...

Then I googled. I rocked. And now it will be in yours.

Christmas/New Year's

who will be home? trying to decide if it (namely, you) are worth the couple hundred dollars to fly in for a few days.

Eat your heart out Josh

Pee-wee's Playhouse is back!

Does death exist? New theory says "No"

Pay attention, this man is a doctor.

The Most Genius Use of Auto-Tune

...turning Bill Nye into T-Pain...


...Stephen Hawking at the 2:20 mark...

'Always Be Cobbling'

Facebook finally justifies itself

follow up from mike

World Cup 2010

The groups are in and looks like the U.S. has drawn a pretty favorable hand, matched with England, Slovenia, and Algeria. Group G will have Brazil, Ivory Coast, and Portugal battling it out and I am pretty pleased with the cushy spot Italy landed. I wonder if it was really all about the luck of the draw...

Other matches not to be missed will be Germany-Ghana and France-Mexico.

The Increasingly Poor decisions of Todd Margaret

For once in my life I actually want to live in the UK so I can watch this.

Thanks to Gavin James for sharing.

Federer

Also good (1:31).

Also, how long till we take over Blackhawks TV and make it cool? Only a matter of time.

Excel much?

Ps. Michael, you still hate Steven Segal?

Very Interesting

Steven Seagal, Lawman.

Interesting

Visualizing empires decline from Pedro M Cruz on Vimeo.

Cruel Intentions

Anybody have any ideas for tonight?

Check out the cool music video for Cruel Intentions by SMD

Evan's Bench

Hoping that everyone knew about the beautiful piece of sittery that's being dedicated in honor of Evan this coming Friday. There's a short ceremony with refreshments @ 10:30 at Elder Lane Park aka Elder Beach right by NT. Carpool any1?





Classic Old Picture

@superfun this Wednesday

Grylls Basement,

It's been a long time since I have been posting or hosting. but both of these things are about to change. I'm back baby. if any of you are in Chicago for the Thanksgiving holiday, I'd like to invite you to a little party on Wednesday Evening, (11/25) The party is entitled @Superfun and it takes place at J Bar in the James Hotel, it's looking to be a good one. Open bar from 9-10:30pm. I'm playing music from 9-10. no cover blah blah blah. Come by, catch up, reminisce, have a drink why don't you!

for your health.

Ross

Wednesday Night Launch Pad

If anyone's going out Wednesday night Char and I are down to have peops over at our place beforehand.

Nice little gathering spot. (1601 W. Altgeld St. -- corner of Fullerton & Ashland).

Lookin forward to seein all yer ugly mugs.

Hoot

indisputably great filmmaking

directed by eric wareheim of tim & eric fame.

Major Lazer "Pon De Floor" from Eric Wareheim on Vimeo.

Major Lazer "Keep it Going Louder" from Eric Wareheim on Vimeo.

Oooh Jimmie...or the Future of GB

Part 1

As the leading NASCAR blogger on Gryll's Basement it is my place to officially announce Jimmie Johnson as the 2009 Sprint Cup champion. Winning one Sprint Cup is hard enough but Johnson has made history yet again by making this his 4th consecutive title. This is equivalent to the the Yankees, Cowboys, Bulls and Celtics dynasties of the past. So I'd like to say "Hear Hear" and toast Jimmie Johnson. Tonight everyone should drink a brick of Keystone light, buy some tools at Lowe's and get arrested for a domestic disturbance.


Part 2

I know many of you were expecting a full on update of Gilberto Archer's future...sadly I have mislead you (that would make a great story though, Zachly). Many of you have embraced Twitter for its great link sharing and micro-blogging capabilities, many of you I'm sure have shunned it because you don't understand it. The question I ask is "does a live Twitter feed of the Gryll's Basement members tweets have a place here?" I believe it does. You know when you have a link, video or some content that is worth sharing but not amazing? A live Twitter feed would solve those guilt issues of making a crappy post. You know when you're wondering what Klatt is doing right now? Oh @dnklatt just posted an update. Now I know that he is singlehandely organizing the Olympic games. The list goes on and on. So I encourage, nay implore the adminstrators of this blog to look into a Twitter Widget for Gryll's Basement, in the words of Zach Novak "You can't go forward while looking back."

Eggo Crisis!

Nation panics, Colbert Reports:

http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/256440/november-18-2009/eggo-waffles-shortage-alert


Another funny article about it:

http://www.mercurynews.com/ci_13826766?source=most_emailed

"it will go down in history as the great Eggo Disaster of '09"

heros are remembered, legends never die

so there weren't no way to embed this video, or even post a direct link, but if you go to the hawks homepage and click on the furthest video tab beneath the screen, "roenick videos," im quite sure youll get all peewee-giddy when you watch "tribute." i really wish i was at the game when they played it with the hawks warm-up video. i bet hootie was.

and as always, we never say it enough:

also, i was thinking about this the other day and cracking up to myself all day. does anybody remember this show - especially this sketch?

when does everyone get in on wednesday?

"And it's fantastic," says Carly Leviton

Rad Croc v. Hippo Pictures

NATURE!

Goulet.

Worth printing out

A graduation speech that's not delivered by a comedian, but that has its moments. David Foster Wallace cuts to the chase at Kenyon in 2005. Really worth the read. Any readers out there go one way or the other on his books?

191 Apple Tree Road - SOLD

It is with great sadness but also excitement to announce that 191 Apple Tree Road has officially been sold and will be closing in mid December. As the children are now all grown up, it's time for them to start a new chapter in their lives! They will be renting a condo in Skokie for a year until they decide what they want to do for good after that.

Whether it was zach throwing a pool stick across the basement and putting adam into the hospital, klatt surprising my dad in the back storage room while playing beirut, goldberg and sackley's perfect beirut game, the popcorn machine, 2am pool swims, high school quarter games, sherman coming home at 6am on prom night (couldn't even bring the newspaper in!), and many more; all have been great memories that we will never forget. I'm not sure who will be around for Thanksgiving, but I say we get a football game in order along with a pregame/movie for the final time. Hope to see most of you next week back in Chicago!

you're an idiot

and that's why you'll never work at google. answers are at the end.

while we're at it

Wasn't Going To Comment On Joan Fabrics and Multi-Dimensional Sailing But...

Is there a Canadian Sung Hockey "Take Me Out to the Ball Game?" YES!

Stompin' Tom Connors is an institution in the attic above our country, and apparently he has literally stomped through stages whilst singing.

Sunday Morning Discoveries

The Kilminjaro Darkjazz Ensemble haunt your ears here.

MONO classifies their music as "Rock / Experimental / Classical." And they're right.

Them Crooked Vultures (aka Dave Grohl, Josh Homme, and John Paul Jones) is streaming their new album on YouTube.

Warren Haynes and Derek Trucks strike strings.

how i spent my halloween

gather round, and ill tell you a tale. you know my affinity for fads, and these story structure posts are getting traction and i want in. so a couple of weeks ago, i went to az to visit a friend from school, and roughly 10 other guys showed up too. from the time i got picked up at the airport in the explorer we rented, it was a pretty much constant party.

friday night we went to this club and saw felix the house cat, which was sweet-he opened the set with prince. we got bottle service and a vip table. ended up getting asked to take my business elsewhere by the end of the night, im a little hazy on the details, but im sure it ended in me confirming my status as an american while not being allowed into this roped off area that they didnt want to open up that night. was fun. then went back to my friends place-which was pretty rad. i guess real estates really cheap there and pays little for a pool with a gazebo.

then next day we went to joann fabrics to make capes for halloween. i didnt go as walaugi cuz i couldnt find black overalls or even snow pants with a bib, not to mention no luck on a purple tneck. crazy. so we just got capes. then we went to the coyotes game in a luxury box. and the game was awesome. wisniewski who played for the hawks last year leveled the coyotes captn in like the first 5 minutes. completely crushed him and got up visibly dizzy and fell back down, and the play ended when the coyotes defenseman dropped the gloves with wisniewski. then the next shift the captn-doan got on the ice, he dropped the gloves with wisniewski, and there were probably 5 more fights in the game, and ended in a shootout winner for phoenix. and we were kiddie corner to the players wives/girlfriends, total gaggle of babes. and there were prolly 3800 people there. no joke. completely empty.

then after the game we went back to my friends place and got in a stretch limo to go to tempe to spend halloween at asu. so many people, and ran into darth vader. like straight off the death star, this guy spent-so he said-$5000 on this costume. interesting investment. and surprisingly enough, a bunch more very serious costumes. the cast of medieval times. my cape didnt really hold much water, but my mustache pulled me through.

then sunday, about half of the guys left. and so me and three other guys went to this air strip where this kid is training to be a commercial pilot. hes logging hours now, and got his license and instructor's license before. he took us up in this single engine cessna plane and i got to fly. me, i. i got to fly. im a birdman now. it was awesome. and he was really nonchalant about it, and let me line the plane up in the air and make the decent and didnt take over till we were like 20 ft from the strip. it was awesome. flyings like sailing just with another dimension. and the guy who's training likes to do red bull air race type shit and would do all these power dives and stuff, it was soooo scary/awesome.

and so then on monday our flights werent till later so we went to in-out burger and then were trying to figure what to do for the rest of the afternoon. logically, we decided to open up the monday shift was babes gentleman club in scottsdale, az.

suffice to say, i bucketlisted the shit out of that weekend.

FaFaFriday!!!

NYC WEEKEND, MAKIN' IT RAIN!

One wholesome blog

I've seen some pretty tall leaf piles in my neighborhood. Pretty tempting.

i'll turn this bus around right now, that'll end your precious field trip pretty god damn quick!

That's why I'm on your penny

...going for the swastika hat trick...

more internet links to the internet!

the onion av club is also now doing a gigantor end-of-decade rundown, and they started with tv this week. they're doing all sorts of lists and shit, and this will continue for several weeks, but here's best of tv to start. pretty hard to argue with their taste.

CHIMP ATTACK!

sweet jesus

Can you get whatever you want for a last meal?

Most of the time, no, but some states will hear you out.

The Explainer is pretty reliable column.

Blak Roc

Found on my fancy phone

evidence

this genius was me, about 2 minutes later

fuck you ambulance

support the troops

man on left is a stranger

santa

i'm sure you've seen this already,

but it deserves a post just to spark some good comments. THIS IS SO BATSHIT CRAZY I CAN'T GET ENOUGH OF IT

Mean Girls Play Soccer

Who's got the best headline?

Getting Tea-Bagged Can Leave You With A Mouthful

So I got tea-bagged yesterday. It was a nice surprise when my boss told me to take the afternoon off and head to the hill for a briefing on energy efficiency in rural areas. So I put my suit on and moseyed down Pennsylvania ave all the way to the big house. But as I approached, the crowd turned angrier. Signs were popping up here and there, getting progressively crazier, and then, without realizing it, I was in the middle of a bone-i-fied Tea Party. Needless to say, they knew I wasn't there for the party. "Kill the Bill", "Don't believe their Lies", "Obama's a Marxist", "I want my country back", "live free or die", oh man, the list goes on. None really directed AT me, as I kept my head down and my lips tight. There were little kids with their moms who took them out of school, cute grannies with nooses around their necks, oh man and all sorts of different colored sweatsuits, and all sorts of Glenn Beck loving, government hating, white as day AMERICANS.

I had to get into the Rayburn House Office but there were 200-300 people in line to go speak their mind. This is when I started getting angry, very angry. I wanted to match their anger and yell something. Their level of ignorance and understanding of matters at hand, be it health care , cap'n trade, or bailouts was astounding. Don't they understand all this is meant to help people? What liberties is the government infringing upon exactly? What are you so afraid of? What DO you want?

Anyway, I kept my cool, an angry face, and stowed away my liberal sentiments for another day. Eventually I found a side entrance with a shorter line, proving that those assholes are the sheep, not me.

winning the world series is the single most fun thing you can ever do in your life

so last night i went up to the bronx to watch game 6 at a yankees bar with some buddies and the full intention to riot (win or lose). this was the first time i've ever been in a city where the world series was happening/being won by the home team, so only knowing loss and shame and embarassment from my life in baseball thus far, i really wanted to live/kill it. for reasons i'll detail below, last night was more fun than i've had in years, easily the best time i've ever had in new york for sure. holy shit winning the world series is the best.

so we got up there at 6 (two hours before first pitch) to stake out a spot in a bar and it was already a complete madhouse around the entire stadium. had a couple beers and made our presence felt at yankee tavern so we had some real estate, then took it to the corner across the street for 40s because there was still an hour before gametime and we were already sick of being shoulder to shoulder. watching the game itself wasn't that fun - this bar was so crowded nobody could move an inch, and standing like that for 6 hours (pre-game and then game itself) is no way to enjoy getting increasingly drunk. things got shaken up in the 8th inning, when a giant fight broke out in this relatively small bar involving quite possibly the largest man i've ever seen in my life and some other poor soul.

anyway, cut to the chase and they win and there's the celebratory collective beersplosion on everything etc etc. we immediately take to the streets and just start running arms raised and shrieking towards yankee stadium (a half block away). everyone is starting to pour out of bars but we were at the head of the pack. as soon as we reach the stadium, i realize i haven't stopped screaming for a solid 3 minutes, haven't had any water or food in 7 hours, only like 8 beers and a 40. so i try to catch my breath (none to be had) and make the right choice: puke on yankee stadium itself, as thousands of people are streaming out of it. unbelievably satisfying.

then the revelry started, and i was pretty out of control, so i'll recap the best i can as my friends reported back to me on the way home (obviously they can corroborate all of this):

- high fived and hugged somewhere around 10,000 people (their estimate) - so wonderful to interact joyously with so many walks of life, in the street, in a giant crowd.
- just continuous, nonstop screaming (no voice today is my reward)
- 2 lampposts/traffic poles climbed about halfway up each
- 6 or 7 cops screamed at me to get the fuck off said lamppost and traffic pole
- all those cops i high fived and a couple i hugged when i got down (also, SO satisfying)
- high fived a few dozen other cops (props to them, they were pretty cool about everything and weren't really busting balls as hard as they could have been)
- heard the words i really wanted to hear: a police captain was trying to clear a crowd i was in by explaining someone had just gotten stabbed near us and he didn't want a riot, and this was a) less than 10 minutes after the game ended, b) on yankee stadium property. definitely a highlight.

i can't remember much else, it was just the most fucking fun in the world. and this street shitshow lasted for at least 2 hours, because the game ended around midnight and by 2:30 we were in a diner across the street from the stadium for eggs, so until then i guess it was all just sort of continuing to happen. i'll try to find out if there's any photographic evidence, i think there might be, and i'll post it later. so in conclusion, winning the world series is the greatest thing that can ever happen. i can't fucking wait for the cubs' turn.

Happy For The Yankees?

Moreso than for White Sokks?

More Mo' tivation

Move over Alex, there's a new Mo' in town.

I'm going to try my best to make a long story short.

I'm growing (ok, trying to grow) a mustache this November. You're thinking, "But Hoot, why sacrifice your boyish looks? Why grow away any chance you have at people feeling even a little comfortable with you around their children?"

The reason is really cool charity called "Movember" ("Mo" = Aussie slang for "mustache"). It's to raise money and awareness for prostate cancer -- which, I recently learned, will affect 1 in 6 men (I know, crazy).

Where you guys come in: I need some sponsors as I grow this hairy lady killer. All you have to do is go to my personal Mo Space Page:

http://us.movember.com/mospace/120691

Click on "Donate To Me." Any amount (yes, any) is huge. My company team, "Leo Furnett" is making a calendar to send to anyone who donates $10 or more (I know, what better incentive is there than 12 months of mustached ad men on your wall). All the money I raise goes to the charity. All the rest of the hairy details are on the webpage.

I was drawn to this because I think it's a really (dare I say) fun and creative approach to a really good cause.
Would be really psyched about any little support you guys can thrown in.

I'll post some pics as I get into it (it might need some time though, before it's... you know, visible).

Lost and FOUND

MORE, at Found Footage Fest

Guess whose door Mark Kirk is knocking on

You know it must be good if I'm covering up my own self-advertisement.

Dear Sarah,

Me, me, me

Today marks 100 days until the Vancouver Olympics and these two animals couldn't be more jacked up.

Check out NBCOlympics.com -- it's brand new today. I run around in a wheel to keep it operational. My pages are called Destination B.C., Team USA, plus a site dedicated to bad-asses named Fast and Fearless.

Some classic wipeouts will get you started. We like hockey here, too. And Switzerland's Lara Gut is the newest hottie-boom-body to actually be good at sports.

Stick that in your playlist!

Mission of Burma: 1, 2, 3 Partyy!

Toots & the Maytals: Let Down (Radiohead cover)

Built to Spill: Hindsight

Electric Wire Hustle: They Don't Want

Maybe the first practical post ever?

klatt's costume was as awesome as he described, btdubs

I miss mail mail

Cardboard is king. In a city dying for more random conversations, this costume got them going. I carried around index cards and had people on the subway -- plus NYPD and Kelly Clark's partygoers -- write postcards to their moms. Then I gave them a stamp and actually mailed it. Josh (a convincing Pee-wee Herman, on a bender) and I got some great stuff.

"Mom, you rock. Damn. You rock. Can't wait for you to buy me things!"

That one is my favorite. How'd it work out, Waluigi? Best thing you saw?

What the hell are you going as?

Klatty? Rest of ya? Looking forward to you fellas posting some good Halloween pics.

I just want my costume to require a mustache. Any ideas?

I know I'm committing a two-posts-in-one-day faux pas...

...but when the Governator himself writes a beautiful acrostic to the California State Assembly... GB knows!

For all you golfers out there...

Don't touch me

Why did Bob Saget quit America's Funniest Home Videos when there are still gems like this out there?

well that makes sense

Agassi (was) a meth user - not pot, alcohol, or coke...METH.

Get that post down the page

Is anyone more excited than this kid?

Well, maybe these guys.

More kids who know what's up this week.

Berto

In Related Ice Skating Bear News...

I just wanna say: let's have less homer simpsons in the world, and more money for public schools

NO BEN! NOOO

FIFA 2010

EA SPORTS FIFA 10

kanye jonze

"We Were Once A Fairytale" - Kanye West Dir: Spike Jonze from Yooj‽ - Recording Live From No on Vimeo.

Our friends are now famous in Ecuador

Check out Soden and my buddy Dudek on the cover of the Ecuadorian newspaper:
http://www.eldiario.com.ec/eldiario-portadas.php?hoy=2009-10-17

they're the two clowns in front wearing blue.

And that's why you always shrink wrap your promotions