Monday, June 30, 2003
'Charles in charge of our days and our nights
Charles in charge of our wrongs and our rights...'
Funniest thing I've seen on telly in a long time: the barbershop quartet of hospital clerical staff singing the theme tune to Charles In Charge in Friday night's Scrubs. Genius.
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Charles in charge of our wrongs and our rights...'
Funniest thing I've seen on telly in a long time: the barbershop quartet of hospital clerical staff singing the theme tune to Charles In Charge in Friday night's Scrubs. Genius.
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You got to leave me now, you got to go alone
You got to chase a dream, one that's all your own
Before it slips away
When you're flyin' high, take my heart along
I'll be the harmony to every lonely song
That you learn to play
When you're soarin' through the air
I'll be your solid ground
Take every chance you dare
I'll still be there
When you come back down
When you come back down
Just bought the first Nickel Creek (bluegrass wunderkinder) album, and so far haven't broken it in because I can't resist sticking When You Come Back Down on repeat for an hour at a time. It's gorgeous - the lyrics, the vocals, the mandolin, the violin...
It's a love song, but not necessarily of romantic love. It speaks about the supportive, unconditional love of good friendship or parenting. Certainly it makes me think of my parents - I'm well aware that not everyone has the good relationship with their parents that I have with mine, and I'm so thankful I've been blessed with them. They've always been 100% supportive of me in whatever I wanted to do, wherever I wanted to go. Not that I've deliberately rebelled against them at any point - but I realise now that they could have made things very hard for me when I wanted to go to art college and my teachers were angling for me to head off to Oxford to do something safe and academic. Mum & Dad would have been very proud if I'd chosen to do that, but they'd been sticking my drawings to the fridge door since I could hold a crayon, and knew where my heart was. They didn't impose their ambitions on me, they encouraged me to do what I yearned to do - support that Mum certainly didn't get from her family when she was leaving school and had aspirations of her own. You're good people, Mr & Mrs B.
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You got to chase a dream, one that's all your own
Before it slips away
When you're flyin' high, take my heart along
I'll be the harmony to every lonely song
That you learn to play
When you're soarin' through the air
I'll be your solid ground
Take every chance you dare
I'll still be there
When you come back down
When you come back down
Just bought the first Nickel Creek (bluegrass wunderkinder) album, and so far haven't broken it in because I can't resist sticking When You Come Back Down on repeat for an hour at a time. It's gorgeous - the lyrics, the vocals, the mandolin, the violin...
It's a love song, but not necessarily of romantic love. It speaks about the supportive, unconditional love of good friendship or parenting. Certainly it makes me think of my parents - I'm well aware that not everyone has the good relationship with their parents that I have with mine, and I'm so thankful I've been blessed with them. They've always been 100% supportive of me in whatever I wanted to do, wherever I wanted to go. Not that I've deliberately rebelled against them at any point - but I realise now that they could have made things very hard for me when I wanted to go to art college and my teachers were angling for me to head off to Oxford to do something safe and academic. Mum & Dad would have been very proud if I'd chosen to do that, but they'd been sticking my drawings to the fridge door since I could hold a crayon, and knew where my heart was. They didn't impose their ambitions on me, they encouraged me to do what I yearned to do - support that Mum certainly didn't get from her family when she was leaving school and had aspirations of her own. You're good people, Mr & Mrs B.
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Thursday, June 26, 2003
Why did no-one tell me there was a movie starring a 60ft ice-cream cone?!
If you're one of the crowd who've been instructed to buy me a 5ft high fibreglass ice-cream cone for my 30th birthday: sorry folks, the stakes have been raised...
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If you're one of the crowd who've been instructed to buy me a 5ft high fibreglass ice-cream cone for my 30th birthday: sorry folks, the stakes have been raised...
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'The stars of Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle are to walk down a pink carpet for the UK premiere of the movie. Cameron Diaz, Lucy Liu and Drew Barrymore will emerge from under palm trees and will be showered with bubbles as they arrive.'
Advance warning for any of you likely to be invited to my wedding, should I ever get married: This is pretty much what it will look like. And yes dear, I will have to marry a gay guy - I realised THAT many moons ago...
PS: And the reception will be held at the Andrew Logan Museum of Sculpture:
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Advance warning for any of you likely to be invited to my wedding, should I ever get married: This is pretty much what it will look like. And yes dear, I will have to marry a gay guy - I realised THAT many moons ago...
PS: And the reception will be held at the Andrew Logan Museum of Sculpture:
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Monday, June 23, 2003
A fairly successful charity shop trawl on Saturday left me with a couple of new tops, a slinky sweater, a tiny cuddly Snowman for me mam and a copy of 10 Things I Hate About You - the latest addition to my 'good US high school rom-coms' collection. But there has been an unfortunate side effect: I'm having impure thoughts about Heath Ledger. I blame the usual post-period friskiness. Still, it's good to know I'm not completely incapable of some good old-fashioned shallow lust.
Come to Mamma...grrrrrrrrrr.... ;)
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Come to Mamma...grrrrrrrrrr.... ;)
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'Then she'd just sit there and wrinkle her nose, and grin at him... that's what I think love is..'
Oh Charlie Brown, please be my boyfriend...
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Oh Charlie Brown, please be my boyfriend...
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Wednesday, June 18, 2003
Tuesday, June 17, 2003
Fantasy Celtic fans: there are no words...
And one for the Gorgeous Blonde (unfortunately featuring Ronan the Barbarian):
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And one for the Gorgeous Blonde (unfortunately featuring Ronan the Barbarian):
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I have plans! I have good things to look forward to! A week in Galway in October (sure, it'll p...ersist down all week, but it'll still be good craic) which ends a family wedding & bevvied-up ceilidh in a 5-star hotel on a beautiful country estate. Then it's Atomic Kitten in November, Eddie Izzard in December and Liberty X in March!
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Monday, June 16, 2003
Zina Akram Hamoodi, 12
'...Two weeks before the missile attack on her grandparents' house, Zina called her uncle Sudad in Manchester to say that she had got another top mark in an exam. But rather than ask him to send her money, she requested that he put a flower on her grave if she died. On May 2, Sudad was in Basra to prepare for the burial of Zina and his nine other relatives who died in the bombing. "I'm struggling to find a flower to buy anywhere in Basra," he said. "If I have to I'll get one from Kuwait or the British embassy. I'll make sure she gets her wishes."...'
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'...Two weeks before the missile attack on her grandparents' house, Zina called her uncle Sudad in Manchester to say that she had got another top mark in an exam. But rather than ask him to send her money, she requested that he put a flower on her grave if she died. On May 2, Sudad was in Basra to prepare for the burial of Zina and his nine other relatives who died in the bombing. "I'm struggling to find a flower to buy anywhere in Basra," he said. "If I have to I'll get one from Kuwait or the British embassy. I'll make sure she gets her wishes."...'
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Wednesday, June 11, 2003
Am highly tickled by this quote from the blog of Plums' associate, Mordant:
'There should be an emergency line where you could phone for an irate Zen Master to come round and bonk heads with a stick. Dammit, there should be some kind of Zen Fairy, some little sprite that appears whenever a nincompoop comes out with that "well, reality is, like, a mental construct, yeah? So we all create our own reality, you see? There is no spoon-- no, no, listen-- there is no spoon!" bilge, and whacks them repeatedly over the head with a really really big whacking stick. "Deconstruct this! BONK ON HEAD!"
'See, as long as stick go BONK against skull, one needs science. As long as we are confined within the cloven pine of cause and effect, we shall need to understand the nature of the physical universe. Just trotting out stuff about how we shape the world with our minds and blah-de-blah-de-blah doesn't make the world disappear in a puff of special effects.
'Don't tell me we can escape our linear 2-and-a-half-D world when you don't even know what that means. You haven't escaped. You haven't even sorted out conjugal visits and a place on the prison's adult literacy programme. You haven't done squat except read the Illuminatus books, take very weak acid and then talk everyone's ear off. You are boring and repetative and need BONK on HEAD.'
:)
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'There should be an emergency line where you could phone for an irate Zen Master to come round and bonk heads with a stick. Dammit, there should be some kind of Zen Fairy, some little sprite that appears whenever a nincompoop comes out with that "well, reality is, like, a mental construct, yeah? So we all create our own reality, you see? There is no spoon-- no, no, listen-- there is no spoon!" bilge, and whacks them repeatedly over the head with a really really big whacking stick. "Deconstruct this! BONK ON HEAD!"
'See, as long as stick go BONK against skull, one needs science. As long as we are confined within the cloven pine of cause and effect, we shall need to understand the nature of the physical universe. Just trotting out stuff about how we shape the world with our minds and blah-de-blah-de-blah doesn't make the world disappear in a puff of special effects.
'Don't tell me we can escape our linear 2-and-a-half-D world when you don't even know what that means. You haven't escaped. You haven't even sorted out conjugal visits and a place on the prison's adult literacy programme. You haven't done squat except read the Illuminatus books, take very weak acid and then talk everyone's ear off. You are boring and repetative and need BONK on HEAD.'
:)
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Tuesday, June 10, 2003
'I hear that Pretty Pink Cervix is opening for the Firm Ovaries at the Roxy...'
How I love those Glitter girls. Don't read the link if you're squeamish about ladies' bits!
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How I love those Glitter girls. Don't read the link if you're squeamish about ladies' bits!
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Monday, June 09, 2003
On my way to work this morning I saw this slogan on the back of a bloke's T-shirt:
'If you can read this, I've lost my rucksack.'
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'If you can read this, I've lost my rucksack.'
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Friday, June 06, 2003
Am thoroughly delighted to have accidently stumbled across the websites of Natalie Dee and her brother Drew of Toothpaste for Dinner:
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My blog has ads at the top of the page, as you can see. I find them a constant source of amusement - as I do the ads on my friends' blogs. The ads must operate on picking up on keywords in your posts - my ads are usually for sparkly things or Christian dating sites (poor Plums usually has ads for insomnia remedies on hers). This morning, however, I was disconcerted to find: 'Need to arrest a ship? Let us find it for you. www.ShipHunter.com'. My incredulity got the better of me:
'This web site was created to assist creditors in locating cargo ships that have unpaid invoices. Using advanced search algorithms, our computers will search over 450 port arrival and line-up lists throughout the world. If we find the ship you are looking for, we will notify you immediately. We will continue to search for up to 12 months, or until the ship appears in one of the ports reporting.'
It's true - you learn something new every day.
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'This web site was created to assist creditors in locating cargo ships that have unpaid invoices. Using advanced search algorithms, our computers will search over 450 port arrival and line-up lists throughout the world. If we find the ship you are looking for, we will notify you immediately. We will continue to search for up to 12 months, or until the ship appears in one of the ports reporting.'
It's true - you learn something new every day.
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Johnnie Walker has cancer. This is very sad news. I just hope 'they' can get him back to full health ASAP. We love you, Johnnie.
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Tuesday, June 03, 2003
I am moving house tomorrow for the second time in five months, and the fourth time in four years. Auntie Pea writes to protest, 'Can you please STOP living like a gypsy?? My address book entry 'K' is a terrible mess!'...
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