JJ BANKS’ Blog

     Below is probably one of the best written songs of all-time. No doubt, I don’t think it matters what your taste in music is…now here’s the tricky part, can you name the song and the artist? I’m going to leave out a chorus that would give the song away.

The screen door slams

Mary’s dress waves

Like a vision she dances across the porch

As the radio plays

Roy Orbison singing for the lonely

Hey that’s me and I want you only

Don’t turn me home again

I just can’t face myself alone again

Don’t you run back inside

Darling you know just what I’m here for

So you’re scared and you’re thinking

That maybe we ain’t that young anymore

Well show a little faith, there’s magic in the night

You ain’t a beauty but hey you’re all right

Oh and that’s all right with me

You can hide ‘neath your covers

And study your pain

Make crosses from your lovers

Throw roses in the rain

Waste your summers praying in vain

For a savior to rise from these streets

Well now I’m no hero

That’s understood

All the redemption I can offer, girl

Is beneath this dirty hood

With a chance to make it good somehow

Hey what else can we do now

Except roll down the window

And let the wind blow back your hair

Well the night’s busting open

These two lanes will take us anywhere

We got one last chance to make it real

To trade in these wings on some wheels

Climb in back, heaven’s waiting

down on the tracks

Oh come take my hand

We’re riding out tonight to case

the promise land

(Chorus) 

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Well I got this guitar

And I learned how to make it talk

And my car’s out back

If you’re ready to take that long walk

From your front porch to my front seat

The door’s open but the ride ain’t free

And I know you’re lonely

For words that I ain’t spoken

But tonight we’ll be free

When all the promises will be broken

There were ghosts in the eyes

Of all the boys you sent away

They haunt this dusty beach road

In the skeleton frames of burned-out Chevrolets

They scream your name at night in the street

Your graduation gown lies in rags at their feet

And in the lonely cool before dawn

From your room you hear their engines roar on

But when you get to the porch they’re gone

on the wind

So Mary climb in

It’s a town full of losers

And I’m pulling out of here to win

    

FLYERS 3  CAPS 2   FINAL OT

     Flyers Power Play: Damn a few good scoring attempts so far, Richards nice one time, Huet waiting for it. Wild shot into stands, minor scuffle ensues. Huet is getting cocky after save. LUPUL SCORES OFF DEFLECTION!!!!! FLYERS WIN!!!

     EAT IT CAPITALS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

FLYERS 2   CAPS 2   15:45 OVERTIME

     Biron is more balls than playoff hockey.

     Shots on Goal: CAPS 40  Flyers 30

     Yes penalty for Tripping!!! Flyers Overtime Power Play!!! 

FLYERS 2   CAPS 2   17:35 OVERTIME

     Overtime playoff hockey is the balls. Kind of like going to a baseball game and knowing you’re going to get to see a walk-off homer.

     Wish we had Knuble.

     Overtime is brought to you by Tockey, whatever the hell that is.

     Only 2nd Flyers Overtime Playoff game.

     Upshall great scoring attempt.

FLYERS 2   CAPS 2   3RD PERIOD INTERMISSION

     Another Jim Beam & Coke and I’m ready for OT. This is the longest I’ve ever been on a computer without looking at porn.

     Series tied at 3 - 3, Score at 2 - 2, 1 goal for glory. There’s my NFL Films writing for you.

     Chris Farley is on the Best of SNL…he was a fucking genius.

FLYERS 2   CAPS 2   END OF 3RD PERIOD

     Overtime????

     54 seconds left and face-off in CAPS zone, nothing, typing straight out from here, net comes loose.

     38 seconds left and face-off in CAPS zone, puck goes into stands, another face off.

     Flyers win face-off, center pass no good, OT here we come!!!! I need another drink!!!

FLYERS 2   CAPS 2   1:55 3RD PERIOD

     The ”tension can be cut with a knife” cliche has just been used.

     Man I have to piss.

     Shots in 3rd period: CAPS 15  Flyers 4

     CLEAR THE PUCK!!!!!! 

FLYERS 2   CAPS 2   5:17 3RD PERIOD

     Blogging is getting tough as the action picks up towards the end of the 3rd period. Can’t type fast enough. Heart beating too fast. Drank too much. Too much TV announcer yelling. SOMEONE HELP ME!!!!

FLYERS 2   CAPS 2   6:03 3RD PERIOD

     There’s a MILF behind Coach Stevens on the Flyers Bench.

     Biron just got lucky as shit after bad pass.

     WOW, Biron crazy save off rebound from board.

FLYERS 2   CAPS 2   8:21 3RD PERIOD

     Awesome save by Biron of a Ovenchkin shot off a face-off.

     CAPS are definitely playing more physical.

     Broken stick and no call.

     Awesome save by Biron on CAPS 3 on 2.

FLYERS 2   CAPS 2   11:43 3RD PERIOD

     Brasher still looks silly on skates.

     The Officials are letting them hit in the 3rd period, let’s just hope it isn’t just for the CAPS.

FLYERS 2   CAPS 2   14:58 3RD PERIOD

     Now drinking a Jim Beam & Coke for the 3rd Period. Need to cut-down on my High Fructose Corn Syrup intake, maybe tomorrow.

     High Stick on Ovenchkin…Let’s Go Flyers!!!

     Clear the God Damn Puck!!

     Shots on Goal: Flyers 23   Caps 25

FLYERS 2   CAPS 2   2ND PERIOD INTERMISSION

     Holy shit a hockey game flies by when you’re blogging it, or maybe the drinking has something to do with it.

     There has to be a fight in this game, right?

     I liked Al Morganti better in the ’90’s when he had the spikey hair going.

     The Ovenchkin commercial is horrible, future star of the NHL?? Ugly mug and can barely speak English…wait it is the NHL.

FLYERS 2   CAPS 2   END OF 2ND PERIOD

      Down goes Cooke hard.

     Tied after 2 periods….so what’s it going to be…glory for the Flyers?…or will Philly fans once again get to watch one of their teams shit the bed?

FLYERS 2   CAPS 2   1:11 2ND PERIOD

     Coatesy has his nose up Ovenchkin’s ass too.

     Biron is still playing good in my opinion.

     Caps leading in shots 13 - 7.

     Lupul called for a hand pass…trying out for the AVP I guess.

FLYERS 2   CAPS 2   4:31 2ND PERIOD

     Now drinking Icehouse…just as good but maybe a little less intense as the Bud Ice.

     My cat is annoying the shit out me, damn spoiled moocher!

     Correction from before…Kapanen got credited for the second Flyers score.

     Ovenchkin just scored.

 FLYERS 2   CAPS 1   10:13 2ND PERIOD  

     Just remembered…I have a laptop and don’t need to be on the table here…..Thoresen just scored after Huet got pwned!!!

FLYERS 1   CAPS 1   11:17 2ND PERIOD

     Man Bud Ice has a punch, my preference for playoff hockey beer. Flyers just didn’t do much on their power play. I prefer the old Captials jerseys with the big Bald Eagle on them.

     Philly leading in hits 17 - 9.

     Hatcher just made an awesome block on Ovechkin one on one.

FLYERS 1   CAPS 1   END OF FIRST PERIOD 

     Well we’ve got a tied game at 1 - 1 after the first period. I’m 3 Bud Ices in and enjoying myself eventhough this could possibly be the last Flyers game of the season, and if they don’t clear the puck from their zone better it will be.

     Points of Interest So Far

• The Flyers trainer doesn’t wear gloves when he attends to cuts…is he fricking crazy???
• Backstrom’s goal was BS….don’t they have to call a bankshot?
• Brasher will always look weird on skates
• I predict a Richards vs. Ovechkin fight coming up in the 2nd period.
• Playoff Hockey Rocks

       

     Here’s the story: apparently you can boil a frog alive if the water is heated slowly enough. It is said that if a frog is placed in boiling water it will jump out, but if the frog is placed in cold water that is slowly heated it will never jump out.

      Is this true? I don’t know and I don’t care, the point is that radical change scares people and doesn’t work. Turn up the heat on them slowly and they’ll never notice. The Government understands this. Income Tax and Social Security are withheld from your paycheck. You never even had the money in your hand so you never miss it. And it’s funny how excited we get when The Government sends us our refund checks in the spring, eventhough this is an interest free loan we give them and is basically the equivalent of you getting your change back at WaWa after buying a Reese’s Big Cup with a five dollar bill.

     So why are our pots starting to bubble? It’s because a whole heckuva lot of people out there think the government should be doing everything for everyone. So we have a situation where The Government is doing for people what people should be doing for themselves and the taxpayers footing the bill are barely noticing. We’re inching toward full-fledged socialism without even realizing it.

     Maybe what we need to do is make taxes due one week before the general election. I’m sure this would get some conversations started about how much is enough when it comes to The Government’s spending.

HAPPY TAX DAY!!!

    

     Recently I took a trip to the Pro Football Hall of Fame, home of the greatest players in gridiron history. Such history, such glory…wait there’s that guy who committed a double murder but had enough money to hire lawyers who convinced 12 retared people that the LAPD were out to get “The Juice”.  

     There’s no doubt that what O.J. Simpson did on the field makes him totally deserving of being in the Hall of Fame, and I really do like those “Naked Gun” movies, but its scary to think that some people actually believe O.J. is innocent. It doesn’t matter anyways because Simpson doesn’t hold a candle to my favorite NFL Player of All-Time.

                                                                                                          Barry Sanders - The Greatest NFL Running Back of All-Time

South Park’s #1 crime fighter Officer Barbrady joins the boys. I wonder if he can read this.