My Favourite Soccer Player Ever Is Now In The MLS

Thierry Henry, Arsenal's all time leading goal scorer and best ever player by fans choice and France's leading goal scorer and most capped player has recently signed for the New York Redbulls. Not only that he's only gone and scored for them on his debut appearance against his former team of Arsenal's biggest rival Tottenham Hotspur.

I've been a fan of Thierry ever since I was a young child from as young as 10. When Henry was bought by Arsenal back in 2000 I remember watching the weekly soccer highlights and every week without fail Henry would have made the highlights by scoring a goal or two.

Thierry Henry in my opinion is probably the best striker that has played the game within the last decade. It's sad to say, but his form has dropped considerably over the last few years, but there is moments were you see the old Thierry in all his goal scoring glory shine through, and I mean this with as much respect as possible to the MLS, hopfully we'll see more of Thierry's skills now he's playing in a lesser league compared to what he's previously played in.

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2010... still humiliating his old Rivals

This I am excited about...

Whenever a movie with either one of these actors comes out I will almost certainly go and see it. The movies The Expendables has all of these actors, I almost don't know how to react to it, all I know is that I'm gona love it.

I know that this movie will get slated by critics who'd rather watch a story with depth, meaning and a moral message that makes us all reflect on the society to which we live, thus making us better people having seen the movie. But I think the most important critics of all will be the audience and I can tell that ever action movie fan out there is counting down the days till this block buster comes out... At least I am, seventeen days and counting.

Whats awesome about this movie is the dynamics of the cast: You've got Stallone, playing his ever awesome Rambo-like role, Bruce Willis bringing a bit of Die-Hard to the table, Arnold who is the practically the definition of an action movie star. Then you've got Jason Statham, The Transporter, bringing his brash British demeanor to this mix. The most important ingredient in this line up in my opinion is Jet Li, the Wushu master, the one true martial artist as opposed to stuntman who has choreographed moves.

Star Wars is awesome...

I've always been a Star Wars fan ever since I was a child, and what I really like is the fact that George Lucas is keeping his brand alive through the means of video games.
Star Wars the Old Republic is a game that will coming out later this year. Its an MMO game which means its going to have thousands upon thousands of players online. What really Impresses me the most about this game is the fact that maps look sensational. The map is absolutely huge, and seriously impressive look at. The game is set long before Star Wars episode one and is set in a time period where there was a lot of conflict throughout the star wars galaxy. The game's is split into two factions The Galactic Republic and The Sith Empire.

Theres eight classes to choose from in the game, the Galactic Republic has: The Jedi Knight, Jedi Consular, Trooper and Smuggler. The Empire has: the Sith Lord, the Sith Inquisitor, Bounty Hunter and Imperial Agent. Each individual class has their own set of moves bespoke to their characteristics. Although I wont be playing the game, as I can't jeopardize having a life, if there ever was a game to waste you life and get fat playing this may be the one.

The Most Irritating and Demanding People in the World

Another story to add to the chronicles of "Dariush at work". You've heard about the bad-breath guy, you've heard about the widest and most annoying lady in the world and now your about to read what I think I'm going to title The Most Irritating and Demanding People in the World.It was a married couple who had just bought three appliances, and because of this they thought that all the Lowe's employees are at their disposal. Including me.

I was cashiering in my usual department of lumber and building materials, their was a big ass line and this is when this couple decided to strike by cutting the line. I was serving a customer and I remember seeing in the periphery of my vision two people standing adjacent to the line waiting for something. I thought to myself that they probably just have a quick question, so i finished serving the current customer I had then acknowledged their presence. They didn't have a question... they just laid some appliance adapters on the counter and told me they had ordered three appliances and they were told to check out at my register. So I politely told them, "okay, sure you can pay here, the line starts up there if you just wait there I'll get to you after I serve these people." The lady's husband having felt that I challenged him exclaimed "No!, we shouldn't have to wait in line, we ordered three appliances!, just ring us up now." This was another moment were my faith in my own race was being pushed to the limits. Much to my dismay, my manager went on to the other cash register and told me to ring up this duo.

So now that there's no line, and its just me and this annoying pair with a lovely air of awkwardness between us all. I finish ringing them up, give them their price, then the husband asks me the possibly the most unreasonable request ever.He asks me to go to the receiving area(which is possibly the farthest place from my cash register)and to check that we were pulling his appliances there and then. Of course I told him as politely as I could that I couldn't do that. This guy, probably trying to impress his wife looks up at me(up at me because this guy was like 4,9) and says. "Me and my wife will be back in half an hour,you see to the fact that our stuff is here ready to go when I get back. OK!" he looks at my name badge then gives me the tough/compensating for something/guy look then saunters off out of the door. Possibly the most demanding customer I've served.

Relief, what a great feeling...

The other day possibly one of the most irritating things happened to me ever. It was a hot day so I thought heck, why not roll down the window... so I did. Now when I got to my location I tried to roll my window back up, you can guess what the issue was, the bastard was stuck and it would roll back up. So what did I do. Well first thing was first, I started cursing a lot, just totally letting the natural Scotsman within me come out for a while whilst I was frantically toggling the window switch to make the window go up, when that didn't work I went to the trunk where I had a screw driver. Somehow thinking i never what I was doing I opened up the switch panel on the driver side door. The switch panel's wire-ish insides were hanging out from the door, and I had no idea what to do with them. This window had to go up and I had no idea what to do. Now heres were my stroke of luck came from, I called my uncle who was famous amongst my family for knowing a thing or two about cars. I took my car to his house were he claimed he could fix my window. Although I was naturally skeptical, his claim in fact came to fruition and against all odds he somehow managed to fix my window, and the prospect of me having to pay a few hundred bucks to get this mess was now non existent... and the feeling of relief was awesome.

Inception... what a movie!

I saw Inception the other night, and wow... seriously. Although not the easiest movie to watch as you have to constantly be thinking to keep up with the complexities of the story line, it has to be one of the most breath-taking pieces cinematography I have see since the Dark Knight(another Chris Nolan film, there seems to be a pattern emerging).
Everything about Inception was just terrific, especially the acting. Leonardo DiCaprio, watching him act is an education, he's definitely a once in a generation type of actor, the kind of actor that would be very difficult if not impossible to replace. His portrayal of his character really did suck me into the story, and how he kept and air of mystery about his experiences with his whole dreaming thing really was captivating.The only thing I didn't like about the movie, and it really wasn't that much of an issue, i just feel its necessary for me to pick one flaw at least and that is that i felt that everything in the movie was a metaphor. But like I said that was barley an issue, I actually had to think really hard to even find that flaw. To sum up this movie is a movie everyone needs to see, it's easily a *****Five Star***** and I'm just wondering how many Oscar nominations this movie's going to receive.

Machete... uh oh!

Theres a new movie coming soon, It's called Machete. It's a very Quentin-Tarintino-esque movie. It's about a Mexican fellow who gets double crossed by an evil white man and apparently, to quote a line in the movie trailer, "He F*%#@d with the wrong Mexican". Now when I first saw this trailer I was getting excited as I love action movies, and this looked full of action, it even featured Steven Segal in the trailer, which got me more excited than the fact Jessica Alba's in the movie. So naturally I decided to do a little research on the movie to find out more about it. A movie with Dinero, Segal, Jessica Alba, and two of former Lost cast members was definitely worth a deeper look beyond the trailer. What I found was really unnerving, the movie draws some very direct and unsubtle parallels to whats going on with the Hispanic community in Arizona. Whats more, the film maker, Rob Rodriguez directly uses white(Caucasian) people as the main villain and from what I read the film is basically a slaughter-fest of white folk by Hispanic Americans. The imagery and symbolism in the movie also doesn't hold back on condemning white people, there are several scenes where the main character Machete is shown in a literally saint-like fashion as he slaughters people while the evil-white people are displayed in a typically sinister and evil manner. whether or not you agree or disagree with Whats going down in Arizona one thing is for sure. Anything that could potentially breed violence and pain is not the answer, and I hope that when this movie comes out that it doesn't inspire certain groups of people to react in a similar fashion.