Tragically Unhip

I couldn’t NOT reblog this from travors. It cracked me up.

So I took my daughter here:

To her irish dancing class this week. And it occured to me to wonder if I am Irish and living in Ireland why don’t i just call it “dancing”? I mean, Chinese people don’t say “Hey let’s order in a chinese tonight!”.
Really we should be referring to it as Dancing, and everything else Foreign Dancing, or perhaps Non-irish dancing. Way less confusing for all.

Ok so I went and I was coming home to wite a kinna “i dunno…” review of the flick, but then was made to realise that I was looking at it in the same way the new Start Wars trilogy bashers vewied those movies: I wasn’t putting myself in the seat of the kid I used to be when I fell in love with the originals. So, that said, it IS a good flick seen that way. Ole Harrison doesn’t really throw himself into Indie like he used to, but things really pick up when Marion arrives and the banter gets decidedly snappier. All-in-all it’s worth your dough.

I was thinking of taking my daughter to see this today and when I went to look for the showing times at my local movieorium, (movorium?), i started to read through the reviews and couldn’t find ONE good one.
One refelcted exactly what I kept thinking when I viewed the trailer – “Hey there’s harrison ford doing indiana jones. badly.” Not “hey there’s indiana jones!!”
Oh dear…

… kinna felt like this today…!

I love this picture. Roland finally reaches his elusive Dark Tower. Also on this day in End World, Stephen King officially runs out of steam and burns his readers like never before after seven books of waiting for this moment.
Sigh.
Still, a great ride until then.

Posh Spice

Somebody dead

In what can only be described as a banner moment, the clock in my car reached 50600 the other day! I noticed this as I left work, and it hit 50626 as I pulled up outside my house. So, I live 26km from work!
Nice to know…

So… recently I heard a song from Paul McCartney’s new CD “Memory Almost Full”, and Hhmmm I thought, that’s pretty good. Then I heard a second one and I liked that too, so I decided to check it out. It’s actually a pretty damn good album. I sat listening to it thinking how cool it was someone of Paul’s stature hasn’t bothered to sit back and count his millions; instead he’s still out there trying to make good music, and succeeding. He has nothing left to prove. No one to impress. And it shows. This is an album written by, and about, a man looking back on his life and weighing up where he’s been. Doing this prompted me to go back and find his previous album (Chaos and Creation in The Backyard), remembering hearing a good song or two from that. This was pretty good, too! Again, just a good, solid set of songs. So, of course now I remember that I liked a few songs from the previous album “Flaming Pie”, so yes i got that, too! And it’s also excellent!

I read a few reviews of all three, and read the same thing a couple of times; they were a return to form after years of so-so music-making. Paul’s career seemed to have been seen as a downward slope: The Beatles were… well, the Beatles! Not a lot more need be said. Then came Wings – a little fluffly but not without their own merits. His solo career then seemed to be kinna…well… not so much. But I think people spent too much time worrying about The Frog Chorus and giving him a bad rap. Yes The Frog Chorus sucked, but it was a soundtrack song from a kids’ movie he had made; it wasn’t meant to be Mull Of Kintyre! These days, with the flood of terrible soundtrack crap we have to listen to, no one would bat an eyelid; back then it was a little bit of an oddity for someone of his calibre to be doing something that twee. Hell, Kenny Loggins made a career out of it.
Anyhoo… I just wanted to wax lyrical about three albums that surprised me somewhat. I love to see something like this; an artist generally considered to be past his prime suddenly making good three albums in a row. Go Paul.

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