I went to a Sabres hockey game & I have so many questions. Here’s a livestream of my thoughts:
There’s an organ playing the tunes & chants. Is it a live organ player or a recording? If it’s live (which I’d like to think & choose to believe it is), where does the person play the organ from? And if it’s not, then where would be the most interesting place that we could put the organ player? In the rafters. Maybe on his own platform, facing the rink head-on. Under the ice is definitely the first place my mind went though. What do you think he’s wearing? Probably some variation of a top hat & maybe a suit with a trenchcoat-esque feel to it. So, style-wise I think what I’m describing is somewhere in between Abraham Lincoln & a ringmaster. What would an NHL organ player’s salary be anyway? And how big of a reputation & organ background do you have to have if you only need to know 3 chord’s worth of a song? Could I realistically apply, I think is what I’m asking. I played piano for a few months when I was 5 & also am an organ donor, so I think that places me in the overqualified category.
Hey, why don’t the players have full face coverage? There are so many teeth lost & mouths stitched, yet here they are with bare bottoms of their faces, ready to knock out a row. This is 100% a semi-preventable problem.
Woah, they did the wave just now and it felt like I was actually in the ocean, floating over a wave when it came to our side of the arena. I’ve never been so locked into the wave until now. This place is electric.
How come national anthems feel so soulless? I wish they had more spunk & cultural heart within. I mean, they’re so outdated, no? Canada at least revamped theirs in the 80s. And you could feel it tonight. I started singing “O Canada” for crying out loud. What if every 10 years or census we had a vote. And everyone sent in their vote for what song they think is the sign of our country’s time & models the culture & society we live in the most for that decade. And whatever gets the most votes, gets to be our national anthem for the next 10 years. That could go so effing haywire, wow. Honestly though, with proper parameters, I think it could be good for us. I wonder what song the Boomers would vote for.
Speaking of Boomers, I want to be adopted by this dude sitting next to me. He’s a Canadian grandpa that closes every sentence with “eh”. You didn’t think they were real either, did you?
You know, I’m not a fan of fighting or violence, but I sure do enjoy a good hockey fight. I think it’s because the refs let them have their outburst. They rate their outburst. Then they sit them in time out to think about their actions. Really, I think what it boils down to is that I like to see a grown man in time out. We adults need that. Heck, I need to be put in time out. But who’s gonna do it? Not me lol. Too much to wrangle. Maybe I should get into hockey so they can give me 5 in the PO box — not for fighting. Just for being myself.
Halftime game creators are some of the most esteemed creative minds out there in my book. Screw the sculptors. Screw the standup comedians. Screw the harpists. I want all the applause to go to the joker who decided to blindfold a kid on ice & have them run around to find the mascot as the arena yells at them. Clinically genius.