Tuesday 15 May 2007

"Is it weird in here, or is it just me?"

Oh I'm feeling very low tonight (Bowie pun not intended!).
Did I tell you how boring my life is? Thought so.

As an added bonus my broadband connection is getting slower day by day - Virgin are supposed to be rolling out a 20mb service, but I'm currently getting about 1!! (and customer support - what a misnomer! automatons incapable of independent thought, if you can even get through)

Anyhow another pointless post, but here's a few "Life on Mars" clips - oh how I miss that show. I think part of it's appeal to 40-somethings is a desire to return to our relatively simply childhoods, for as Blur so correctly stated "Modern Life is rubbish" (of course our kids will be saying the same thing in 30 years)



Anyone except me remember Buck Rogers? This Video, is , I believe the titles from the movie version, which I saw as an exciting 70's double bill with Battlestar Galactica (it doesn't get more 70's than that kids, plus I was probably eating spangles, whilst sitting on a space hopper , and playing with clackers!!!). These titles are so strange - in a kind of hallucinogenic 70s soft porn kinda way, plus that theme song always reminded me of Barry Manilow (I have it on vinyl somewhere - I was such a geek back then - what's changed you might ask?


"I put tape on the mirrors in my house so I don't accidentally walk through into another dimension." - Steven Wright


1 comment:

Petrinapinina said...

It's me, Andrea leaving you a wee comment with my new name:)

I too watched Buck Rogers in the 70's, when i was much much younger than you. You do have a good 5 years on me:)
I ate my spangles, but spat the orange ones out, as they were a bit stinky on it, and bounced on my space hopper too.
Those were the days:)

I'm also like you, having withdrawals from Life on Mars, but as you know, i'm re-watching them all again on the wonderful Virgin Media, whilst using my £10 a month Virgin media contract phone with free minutes and texts:) I know there's probably a cheque in the post for me from Richard Branson himself.

There you go then:)
C ya later!