Month: October 2002

I am scared for a world where people think that Uptown Girl is an original Westlife song. I know they exist and they should be hunted down and educated. It also scares me that when I wanted to check the lyrics for the title from My Girl, Westlife have also covered it. This means there are also a generation of people who there who believe it is an original Westlife song.

However, I guess I also fall into the same category. When I first heard Words by Boyzone, I was horrified to actually like a Boyzone song and I had no reason to believe it was not an original song. I have since learnt better. Liking a song by the Bee Gees is not quite as bad a sin.

Where am I going with this? Well, was walking home from grabbing a hot dog a few minutes ago, for some reason I was singing along to My Girl. At least to the few lyrics I could remember. Anyway the line used in the title got me to thinking about words and this quickly lead me to a couple of lines from Words

‘it’s only words and words are all I have to take your heart away.

Well, actually the first line pretty much covers it all: ‘it’s only words’. Its not very true though is it? Words are not only words. Words can be the most painful thing you ever experience and they can go right to the other end of the range and be the happiest thing you ever experience. There have been a couple of times recently when a simple string of words have been painful. They shouldn’t be, but they are.

There is an old saying that a picture is worth a thousand words. I don’t know. Sometimes I could believe that. Most of the time I don’t think so. I would prefer words. Of course they can’t do justice to some pictures, but for the important things words are worth far more.

As much as you can’t always tell tone on the internet, I cannot even begin to convey the tone used by JJ72 lead singer Mark Greaney when he sings the following line from City:

‘They say things will change
But nothing will change’

The words themselves don’t convey as much as his voice. The line screams at you. It demands your acknowledgement and your attention. It is a strong performance and I imagine during a live show, a very powerful moment.

They are playing an extra gig next week as the first London gig is sold out. I am tempted to see them two nights running.

Slept in today. Not as much as I would have liked. I was awake around 11:30. Read for a bit, had a nice long hot shower and am back to surfing aimlessly. I have no real clue what to do for the rest of the day. Couple of movies out that I want to go and see so might just turn my phone off and go see something. Should head up to Clapham at some stage. I need to get some food and maybe pick up a couple of other bits and pieces. Thoughts of heading out to that restaurant I like in Fulham for dinner are floating around but I just don’t know.

I still have some stuff to watch here, a few more episodes of CSI and then I have The 51st State which I had me in stitches when I saw it in the cinema.

Not sure if there is anything going on tonight, I might have been let off the hook. That would I believe be a good thing.

There are however no ice cream vans.

Why? I don’t know why. I had decided I simply wouldn’t tell/remind anyone that it was my birthday. It has been a shit week and I wanted a quiet weekend. My flatmate is away for a few days and a quiet day around here on my own sounded really good. Not exactly an exciting birthday activity but there you go.

I had lunch with Iain and mentioned to him again that I was thinking about having some people around tomorrow night. Seen as I was home alone and it was my birthday it seemed like an opportunity. But I decided against it, I really didn’t want to bother. Anyway to cut a long story short the topic came up in the pub tonight and everyone now knows. Not only do they know, they are now insisting that we do something tomorrow. There have already been a lot of late nights this week with a lot of booze and I really don’t feel in the mood to add another one. I am not so sure I have a choice in the matter.

hmmm

On a whole other note, I have come to the conclusion that life is a cruel joke. I’m not sure who it is being played by, but it is being played on me that is for sure.

Friday Five
1. How many TVs do you have in your home?
2, a 12 inch in my bedroom and another in the lounge
2. On average, how much TV do you watch in a week?
2 – 10
3. Do you feel that television is bad for young children?
No
4. What TV shows do you absolutely HAVE to watch, and if you miss them, you’re heartbroken?
These days there is nothing on. Counting stuff I download then, Buffy, Angel and West Wing. Soon to be 24.
5. If you had the power to create your own television network, what would your line-up look like?
Lots of sci-fi with lots of funny comedy and lots of drama. (yah yah real specific answers there)

And even more Garth Ennis War Story one shots at the end of next year!.

This movie cannot arrive quick enough.
The Matrix: Reloaded one sheets here

This link has had the office in stiches this morning.

I am so tired. I came in went pretty much staight to my room. A slight detour to turn the heat on for a brief bit. I’ve been lying on my bed aimlessly surfing for about an hour now. I’m gonna go to bed and read for a while I think. Goodnight all.

So this evening I had to leave work on time. I had to get to a shop before it closed in order to pick up a book to give to my boss tomorrow so he can pass it on to one of the guys in Dulles next week. Of course right before I leave, the news comes through that there is a bug and its a bad one. No more details to come for a while so I head off and of course have to come back into the office *sigh*.

Note to the world. Bugs found at the very last minute are Very Bad Things.

I have to be in for a fairly important meeting at 9:30 in the morning and immediatly follow that with a meeting about this bug. The joys of my job at times. That does of course mean bed early tonight. It didn’t work last night tho. I was in bed before 11, but I slept really badly and was late for work this morning. I have been really really bad at that this week…even more than usual.

In other notes, I have noted before that It was a little strange that all my friends were older. Well the new guy in work is quickly becoming a really good friend and is in fact the same age as me. Not only that but 2 of the 3 girls in the bar are fast becoming friends and are in fact younger than me. I don’t know the third girl…yet but I know she is younger and boy is she cute 😉

Version 8.0 for AOL has just launched in the US. I’ve just installed it to take a look. I knew it had some nice stuff in there but I’m actually really really impressed by this. Companion is really sweet and the broadband welcome scheme is a thing of beauty. I’ve got some high sound quality ‘Sessions @ AOL’ streaming and they are really top stuff. Kinda like MTV unplugged in musc style but its the band in a studio and a camera crew and nothing else.

Man I would pay for this content. I love stuff like this. There is an entire archive of sessions here. I’m so gonna be spending my afternoon working through some of them.

So far, I have just finished David Gray, finishing up Avril Lavigne right now, with at least 10 more lined up. It is slowing down my pc a bit, Memory usage has hit 50,000k , but its damn worth it. I’m not bothered watching it, just listening away happily. If only it wasn’t just in the US.