Footie and Unreasonable Expectations

[przed]

Last night was soccer night. The final score was 0 - 4, not for our side, but in spite of the one-sidedness of the scoring, the kids actually did really well. They got it up to the other goal a lot, but couldn't get it past some pretty good goalkeeping on the other side's part. (Ros did some pretty great goalkeeping of her own, which was lovely to see. I've got to get her practising ball-handling, though. She totally over-thinks it, as she often does with some physical things, and it takes her forever to get the ball down the field. We'll just have to practice a bit so she doesn't think about every movement.)

In other news, I seem to have created unreasonable expectations for music journalism in my daughter. We had this conversation over dinner last night.

Ros: (catching sight of a picture in the local paper's Entertainment section) Who's that?
Me: That's Metric. They're a Canadian band.
Ros: (clearly disappointed) Oh. I wanted it to be Take That.
Me: Oh, Sweetie, Take That don't really get in the papers here. They do a lot in England, though.
Ros: I want to live in England!
Me: You and me both, kiddo.

Well, if she keeps this up, she'll be totally ready to see Take That in 2014.

Comments

[halotolerant.livejournal.com]

If Ros is a good goal-keeper, England could probably use her for Euro 2012 and I'm sure there'd be a citizenship in it *g*

Rock on 2014 and Take That!

Did you guys see the Barlow's Jubilee song? It's really rather lovely:



And this was fun too:



*g*

[przed.livejournal.com]

She's really pretty good in goal. Give her a couple of years, and she might be ready for Euro 2016.

TT in 2014 FTW!

I did see Sing, and it is lovely. I've been debating grabbing the documentary. I'm sure my Gary-loving daughter would enjoy it.

Will Smith and Gary together are far too much fun. I loved Gary reminding Will about when Jason kicked his arse break dancing too.

[halotolerant.livejournal.com]

I thought the documentary was very good, not least for pointing out how different lifestyles are within with the Commonwealth but how music can bring all that together (I loved the Kibera Slum Drummers pointing out to Gary that for them music is genuinely an escape and a joy rather than a commercial enterprise, although I hope this project has meant more money for them) - so I think it would be good for children (of all ages!) as well as fun with Gary *g*

Oh god, I was *delighted* to a ridiculous extent that Gary remembered that, because I was going 'Oh, you met at Smash Hits!' but assuming they wouldn't mention that in the way celebrities often don't seem sufficiently aware of their own trivia *g* (I remember that more, though, for the bit as you have seen on the DVD of Will being confronted by Mark and Robbie camping it up in dressings gowns and clearly having no idea how to respond *g*)

[przed.livejournal.com]

I acquired the documentary last night, so shall have to give it a watch, hopefully with Ros. (I have to say I was disappointed he didn't hit Canada. :-( )

I felt the same when Gary mentioned the Smash Hits awards! I watch that clip of Jason showing up Will far too often. And I also know what you mean about celebrities being insufficiently aware of their own trivia. I thought it was a huge missed opportunity when Gary was on Jonathan Ross a while ago with Ewan McGregor, that when Ewan made a point of kissing Ross, no one pointed out that Ross had done the same thing with TT ages ago. I think I may even have yelled at the TV. ;-)

I've only cherry picked my way through the footage you sent so far, and hadn't seen that bit with Mark and Robbie and the dressing gowns. Shall have to rectify that! I really need to go through it all with a view to making notes for M/R and H/J vids. (At least I've started laying the groundwork for a multifandom vid to What is Love.)