v1.2 Drilling down to detail

Upon researching our first ever post (songs with a city in the title, check it out yea), research uncovered that some songs actually contained a beach name rather than a city name. So here goes, the extraordinarily specialised.....

Songs With a Beach in the Title

1. Echo Beach - Martha and the Muffins.
   Who says it's not real? I believe it's real.
   
   
2. The Girl from Ipanema - loads of folks sing it.
   Ipanema is just one beach in party city Rio de Janiero...
   
   
3. Copacobana - Barry Manilow.
   .....whaddaya know, Copacabana is another.
   
   
4. Malibu - Hole
   Most boring Hole song ever I think.
   
   
5. Blacktown to Bondi - Mental as Anything.
   Increasing obscurity proves that Google ability can outshine actual knowledge at 1000 paces. But it was on Spicks and Specks once.
   
   
6. Beatnik Beach - The Go-Gos.
   Located somewhere near Echo Beach, but with more turtleneck sweaters.
   
   
7. Brighton Rock - Queen
   If only the Poms knew what nice beaches were really like!
   
   
8. Kokomo - The Beach Boys
   There had to be a Beach Boys song, didn't there. Thanks Liamscriam!!
   
   

I know there are more, but quite honestly I've lost interest. After all, I've a more exciting to follow......

Watch this space!

Some Annoying Things about Revenge of the Sith

Although I have loved the Star Wars franchise from a tender age, there are still some things about Revenge of the Sith that annoy the crap out of me. And I think ROTS is the best of the three prequels.

Thus: 'The MOST Annoying things about 'Star Wars III, Revenge of The Sith', a by no means comprehensive list'

1. The enormous leap the viewer has to make to believe that sooky sooky lala Mr Petulant Anakin somehow transmogrifies into the poster boy for evil, Darth Vader, and all for love!
2. The way the former QUEEN Amidala and current Senator of the Republic, Padme, moons about the flat waiting for Mr Petulant to come home when she should be off quashing evil foes in her own right.
3. Anakin's greasy hair - could he wash it, or even comb it?
4. The fact that none of the characters eat, anything, ever!
5. That nobody cottons on to the striking similarity between the evil Emperor dude and the Chancellor, amazing what a good hoody can do as a disguise.
6. No subtitles for the Wookiee speech - we STILL don't know what they're on about.*
7. Padme's cardboard pregnancy tummy - looks like a giant egg carton segment. Less convincing than Katie Holmes'.
8. Padme's ridiculous, uncomfortable clothing. I know, the last time I wore 6 metres of fake pearls on my nightie I nearly strangled the cat!

*When I was a kid, living in Florida, I saw a TV show called 'A Very Wookiee Christmas' or something similar. It had subtitles, or maybe it was dubbed, becos the whole show took place on the Wookiee home planet when Chewbacca went home to see his family (Wookiee kids are way cute) and Han Solo and Luke Skywalker dropped in with gifts. Or maybe I dreamt it.

Nope, it's real. Thanks Google, for http://www.locusmag.com/2005/Features/0401_StarWarsDVD.html

News Tarts

I recently wrote a memo which made reference to Newstart - a lovely euphemism for our good ol' welfare friend, the dole. My routine slap on the F7 key uncovered the following:



This sort of thing doesn't go unnoticed, hence todays list.....

The News Tarts

1. Paris Hilton, natch. No explanation needed
   
2. Todd Russell. Two weeks underground makes for an extra long fifteen minutes, don't it? May qualify for first spot but Paris would claw his eyes out for it.
   
3. Stuart Diver. Two days underground, see Todd Russell
   
4. Shane Warne. Or maybe he's just a common everyday tart?
   
5. Jordan. News slapper.
   
6. Angelina Jolie. United nations schmations. What does she actually do?
   
7. Osama Bin Laden. Never seen, but always reported on...
   
8. Kim Beasley. Thinks he's one of those ALP leaders that can be entertainment if he can't be a useful politician. He's neither. He's the tart even the fat kids won't sink their teeth into.
   
9. Tom Cruise. Jumping on the couch does not make you adorable.
   
10. Nicole Kidman. Less of you, more of Keith.
    
11. George W. Bush. Not strictly a tart, but would be for his own benefit to have less quotes in the media.
    

I'm sure there's more, but they are probably sidebars next to this lot.

Things to do on a Saturday afternoon

1. have a sleep
   
2. have another sleep
   
3. sleep a bit more
   

Okay, now here's the list of things to do, if you are not a man.

1. Go outside and play in the garden
   
2. Write yourself a dumb list on blogger
   
3. Roll around the floor laughing with your children
   
4. Mow the lawn
   
5. Make some toast
   
6. Have a beer
   
7. Write an email to your friend on the other side of the world
   
8. Download The Grates on itunes
   
9. Pretend you are James in the hockey skit
   

This may or may not be an actual reflection of my afternoon. The joys of sporting byes!