Van Basten II

They played counter attack well but let's face it the Swiss were begging for it, their defense was even worse than England , talent wise Switzerland is rather ordinary if they do well it's because of being tactifully efficient they weren't last night. That said as a Bleus fan it's been a while since I enjoyed the team so much in a tournament.

Swiss defensive is like well ... Swiss cheese

How about that , Costa Rica qualifies and the former World Champs forming the group have to fight for the remaining crumbs ....

Nice show to celebrate you birthday! I always enjoy watching Jason A. Steamy venues are fairly common in jazz/avant music, most notably The Stone. The problem is if you run the air, you can't hear the music properly; if you don't run the air, every one starts melting. Bring hankies, I suppose. Anyway, Happy Birthday! Thanks, in this place the music is way more louder than whatever delivers a bit of air , especially with the drums in front . Saw last night in the same venue Mike Pride’s From Bacteria To Boys with Jon Irabagon, Alexis Marcelo & Peter Bitenc, Iragabon sounded more in his element than last time I saw him,.

And Greece-Japan was like listening to a Kenny G solo that lasts 90 minutes plus extra time, , Is it me or the 6pm game eastern time is most of the time the crappiest matchup of the day.

England suddenly becomes Italy's greatest fans

No love for Greece-Japan

Went back to Café résonance to see Sun Rooms that features; Jason Adasiewicz on vibraphone, Mike Reed on drums, and Ingebrigt Håker Flaten on bass., very fine show by one of the most dynamic vibes player I had the chance to see, on the last tune he took off part of the lighting .. sets were on the short side of things around 40 minutes each, would have taken a lot more but then I ain't the one playing in the sweltering heat. , the members of the group were using their towels like tennis players after a long point as they were sweating profusely.. Music wise it was a great way to end my birthday . Regarding the place as it was my second visit and had more time to check it out and its surroundings , as mentionned the heat will become a problem in the dog days of summer , there's an AC but it barely sputters a bit of fresh air for the lucky few near the stage , as soon as you move away the slight fresh sensation dissaprears and as you probably guessed none of the air goes to the side of the musicians. The block where the café is located has a rather seedy side as the next door place are outfits specializing in monkey greasing businesses, Montreal Sin city indeed !!!!

Only player they will allow more time is the keeper, the hazard (not as Edens) of the scheduling makes it a bizarre as two of the three games today involves teams who are 0-1 CR7 update, Portuguese head man said he would be there for the next game, also a woman who bwecame famous after she declaired that he had an affair with her was thrown out of the Portuguese camp, she was hired by a media outlet to work as a "journalist"

The two first team out of World Cup are not so suprisingly Australia and way more suprisingly defending champs Spain.... In other news CR7 may be out for his next game and maybe for the rest of the competition, maybe Portugal then can try to play as a team instead of being dependent of the Real Madrid' top scorer

Forgot to talk about it , it was an enjoyable show, although Fernandez was not the guy that was featured the most, the set up was rather unique as the musician up front was the drummer, them the double bass player on his left the sax player and behind everyone Fernandez

Saw Yasmine Hamdan from the the Only lovers Jarmusch film fame on a outside venue last night, wow ! Arab songs with an trip hop touch For those who will visit Montreal, there's a new place to attend gigs called Café Résonance , nice old school place located in a basement low ceiling bunch of chairs that have been bought at a garage sale, nice vegan counter restaurant and a programmation that mostly features jazz, check it out. http://www.resonancecafe.com/

Going to see the Dr during the big jazz fest in late june. For my part attended or rather try to attend Boneshaker (Paal Nilssen-Love, Mars Williams, & Kent Kessler). Nilssen-Love being the type of guy I'd buy a ticket no matter who plays with him.Unfortunately doors only opened at 10 pm and there was a first part prior to the main part, which wasn't much the problem except for the time but mainly the fact that it was standing only ! So it meant standing up for about 45 minutes in a rather small room with a lot of people plus the first set that lasted around 35 minutes .So I guessed that the marquee names wouldn't show at least up until 11:30. I figured out that my knees wouldn't take it or being surrounded by so manty people in such a setting wouldn't be worth it. So I opted to leave rather than watch a band while being pissed off and tired. Yesterday was a bit more lucky saw Low,, at least I was able to sit throughout the entire gig. Barely knew about them prior to the gig except they've been around for a while and the music description in the program fitted my fancy. Pretty tough to describe their music, in a way they they kinda reminded me of the Jeff Tweedy's band à la Wilco or Uncle Tupelo but they don't sound at all like them. At best I would describe them as Gothic Americana. They are dark, melancholic but not agressive although with a bit of a groove , some of the songs featured nice harmonies between the lead singer and the drummer/backing vocalist . Fine evening..

Great win for the Yankee side yesterday, big test will be against a Portugal that will be ? A Dejected B Angry C Motivated D Having a big game by his top player

OK US fans, you can wake up from the tedious Iran-Nigeria affair, it's now the game you've been waiting for ...

As a CR7 hater, only word I can come up is Schadenfreude

Very good deal indeed

Except for the brilliant Swiss comeback, games were subpar, Messi's goal will make forget some people on the fact that Argentina was hardly impressive, Honduras played like thugs against France and managed to lose all the "support the underdog" from the locals they had at the debut of the game. Tomorrow starts strongly with the clash of the day between Portugal and Germany and will finish with a matchup that might find a lot of you interested between the US and Ghana. Sandwiched in the middle a game involving two nations which often manage to make the news for very bad reasons.

Here's a tweet that turned bad for the author PeterrWLFC: If Costa Rica beat Uruguay on Saturday ill chop my penis off and eat it It's not going to happen :)"

As I wrote spomewhere else, smells like 1986 Regarding the Italy-England, marked out big time when Pirlo did the dummy for the first Italian goal Wonder if more upsets are on the dial today

Those who watched Chile-Australia witnessed also a dandy of a game .

Friday the 13th massacre , think of it Spain allowed more goals in this game than in the last combined World Cup and Euro together

So much for Spain-Netherlands being a stalemate

I've always wanted to go to Suoni! IIRC one year they had Globe Unity, which I would have loved to have seen. I've just not been able to get it together to do it. But I still hope to some day. I attended the Globe Unity gig, great souvenirs

Great reviews Leeway , every time I see a Vision program I get a bit envious, some of these days I will have to make the trip, only negative it's in the same time than our own Suoni per il popolo which I like to support.