"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

"open channel D !"

Nothing to say - just wanted to post a couple of videos. I was listening to Swing Out Sister's best of earlier, I'd forgotten how good they are / were (big in Japan - see last video). They had that whole spy movie/lounge/Bachelor pad/Bacharach/cool jazz/ Avengers vibe, and excellent pop songs of course. Plus Corrinne (at least initially) had that fantastic bobbed hair/pale face/eye make-up thing going on that I still find irresistible today (and a fantastic voice).

(That last video is from 2002, I think - love that Emma Peel catsuit )

“I was walking down the street with my friend and he said 'I hear music,' as though there's any other way to take it in. 'You're not special. That's how I receive it too... I tried to taste it, but it did not work.'” - Mitch Hedburg

“If you get to thinkin' you're a person of some influence, try orderin' somebody else's dog around”

Monday morning - grey, cold, and wet, and that's just me!
Yesterday at work was absolutely dreadful. Busy, understaffed and under-equipped (someone forgot to order any stores last week - naughty!)

Just got in from shopping, very disappointingly no cheap DVDs were found. Bricks and mortar stores are so damned expensive, I was picking up discs that I knew I could find for nearly half price, on-line, there is something about the immediacy of shops that's more satisfying than the postman (ooo-err!) , nevertheless - I resisted. Town centres at 9am on a Monday morning are so refreshingly devoid of the usual human tidal wave of gold jewelery and leisure wear. It reminds me of Ben Kenobi's famous line "You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy - We must be cautious"

I also had my tri-monthly haircut,and amazingly only a minor disaster this time, I didn't come out crying, or looking quite as medieval as usual!

Groovy!

“Never ask a barber if you need a haircut.” - Cowboy saying (actually applies to a lot of professions!!)

(For nearly 30 years I thought it was funkiest monkey not punkiest monkey! - appears to be from some kind of Japanese Pebble Mill at one ! )

“Death where is thy sting? Love, where is thy glory?”

Death - I've seen a lot of it! I don't want to go into a lot of detail for confidentiality reasons but here it is. We have a patient admitted yesterday with abdominal pain, CT scan shows he has something very bad. The problem is he is very old and has short term memory loss - so you see he will constantly forget his diagnosis, and have to go through the horror of hearing it for the first time again and again - tragic!

I may have mentioned my bout of severe depression a few years ago - I spent several weeks, close to suicide. Once in a daze, I stepped out in front of a car, and was technically knocked over I suppose. I vividly remember thinking "I don't care" - I hope I never go there again!

On a lighter note I just watched Carry on Cleo - Marvellous!
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“On a large enough time line, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero.” - Chuck Palahnuik (author of Fight Club et al)

"Hermits have no peer pressure"

Blimey! Work today was very busy. Quite late in and simply fell asleep in front of the PC again!
I know there are actually one or two people who read this blog, so I thought I should put in a quick appearance or you might never come back!

I am feeling very lonely at the moment, sorry for the downer, but that's the way I feel. Although I enjoy my own company, every now and then you simply want something more! damn my genetically coded desires!

I'm off to bed, hopefully a proper post tomorrow, as it will be fuelled by alcohol!!!

Look out for Bobbie's fabulous moves in the second clip!

“We seek pitifully to convey to others the treasures of our heart, but they have not the power to accept them, and so we go lonely, side by side but not together, unable to know our fellows and unknown by them” - William Somerset Maugham (cheery fella)

"Whenever I think of the past, it brings back so many memories!"

A quick post before bed. Long shift tomorrow, So I probably won't be awake enough to post anything (actually for anyone who's read my earliest posts, my insomnia has only been a minor inconvenience the last couple of weeks - what's going on there eh?).

Nothing to say really.

Actually on second thoughts - isn't it amusing how "bloggers" and "myspacers" seem to constantly worry about appearing cool? (at least in their own terms). "Retro" is often an excuse to look back at things that were cheesy or naff at the time but you secretly enjoyed. Now you can be all post-modern and ironic about your love of say, Thundercats (and I was 20 at the time!). I suppose nostalgia really is an attempt to re-capture the cosiness of a childhood state, or as in my love of the sixties, someone elses. Do you think my counterpart in 1967 was saying to his pals "I'd love to live in 1927!" - actually since that was the year of the general strike and the Jarrow March, probably not.

I love ABBA and I'm not too cool to say it (well at least not in this anonymous blog - coward!)
Here's a nice video with just the girls (of course I always fancied Frida !), and since I was just talking about High NRG another uncool video (surely Gloria was the inspiration for "Disco 2000" by Pulp???)

“It seems like once people grow up, they have no idea what's cool.” - Bill Watterson (Author of the fabulous Calvin and Hobbes strip)

(did you spot the subliminal message hidden in this post !)

"I'm writing a book. I've got the page numbers done."

Brothers and Sisters, today I want to talk about hair! (no not the hippie musical). Who amongst us hasn't been through a whole range of "do's" in their days? My current "style" is an amorphous blob, an outgrowth of the bad haircut I had about three months ago, which in turn was an outgrowth of the previous bad haircut. A month or so after a haircut I find my hair reaches a key stage, where I actually quite like it, and I know the next chop will ruin it. Do you ever look in the mirror and think "my hair looks quite good", but the very next day it looks like Arthur Scargill in a high wind? Today is definitely a bad hair day, I look like a 70's ad for Falcon Hairspray for men (I feel the compelling urge to don crimpolene flares!). Luckily we live in a truly eclectic age, so me alternating between aging pseudo sixties groovster (or at least an approximation) and Jason King alike, can be equally scoffed / ignored (delete as applicable).

I'm rambling!

(terrible trailer - great film)

It's early, so I haven't had time not to do anything, which I can subsequently fret about not doing, so I'm off to not do that now - bye!

“We live not according to reason, but according to fashion” - Seneca (he said this nearly 2000 years ago - nothing changes - eh?)