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British sketch comedy is one of the mainstays of Veneer family entertainment. The Fast Show, Little Britain, Monkey Trousers--all very amusing. This week we've been watching Big Train, which may be the best of them all. Tonight we watched the final episode of the first season (1999). In the final...
Sucks that it has to be a MySpace page and that they don't have the whole episodes (although that last one might be a good thig) I didn't think I knew Dr. Shrinkers....but as soon as I saw the opening....it all came back! I used to watch all of these after school and also the Saturday morning show,...
Sean reminisces... Lately, Stefan and I have been on a 70s rewind... in case some of you haven't noticed. The "bad" influence of our new favorite TV show, Swingtown (Thursdays, 10pm EST, CBS), has made us look for other ways of remembering the 1970s in all its glory - good and bad. The 70s had a...
What were your favorite Roller Disco Songs of the 70s? The 6th Grade Serenade question got to me, because as I stated before in more than one prior post, I am 1978. In the 6th grade, the thing to do was go to the movies and the Roller Rink, so we did. I remember begging my mom to let me go see the...
Share a song you listened to in 6th grade. I couldn't find Come On Mary Ann by Donny Osmond, but I did find this awesome little gem by Shaun Cassidy that I had forgotten all about... and I find still freakishly awesome! I hope you give it a chance! And remember this? Heh.
For some reason, this tune was stuck in my head yesterday. Maybe there's a tiny bit of me fixated on Cheyenne Jackson's wondorous thighs from The Tony Awards. Maybe it was mind's way of keeping from breaking down over the fact with what I'm paying for gas I could put a kid through college. Maybe it...
Yesterday I caught the headline act for this year's Ithaca Festival: Orleans. Yes, they're still... together. (You thought I was going to say "still the one," didn't you?) It turns out they have a rich local history. The full version, by founder Larry Hoppen, is on Orleans' website, here; I highly...
As promised yesterday, here are a couple tracks showing what 70s-era guitarist Alan Parker and keyboardist Alan Hawkshaw got up to in their sound library careers, not playing second banana in an also-ran wizard-prog band. I put the de Wolfe library's best-of collection, Bite Hard, on the mp3 player...
One of the great things about the sharity blogs is that many of the albums ripped, uploaded, and blogged are done so by fans. While some bloggers just cut and paste the Wikipedia or AMG entries for albums into their blog posts, others write a couple "why I like this record" paragraphs, and for me...
This is another "then and now" set of pictures also focussing on the teeth as today is my last day with my old discoloured front teeth and my denture! (I promise I will stop banging on about my teeth soon). This photo was probably taken in 1976 or 1977 which would make me 8 or 9. 1976 was the year I...
... when it comes to the oldies. I am so 1978.
*Please hand me my body glitter, tube top, polyester wrap around skirt, my Candies, and my coke spoon please.* I like disco, we all know that as I admit it very freely - and the coke spoon comment is a joke, duh! I never thought very much of Saturday Night Fever as a movie, but my Mom did have the...
Zambia's Witch is a really awesome recent discovery of mine. I recently found myself bored with newer music, and of course, moods like that usually lead to explorations of music in the past. I was looking through some blogs, and happened upon an article on these guys. There's really not a lot to...
What!? I have no Donna Summer in my library? That can't be right, I just must have not have tagged it. Nope, I just checked. Wow, that baffles me. All this time and never once have I posted anything by the Queen of the Discotheque? I offer these to you with my head hung in abject shame.
Yes, it's very fromage. But this song always puts a smile on my face makes me think of lazy, hot summer days when I was little, hanging out at the park with the other neighbourhood kids or going for drives with my older brother in his magnificent baby-poop brown Ford Fiesta, with all the windows...
That's me... I really wish I knew why my body has no problem waking up before "weekday alarm time" on the weekends but does its best to paralyze me during the week at the same time. I can't remember the last time I slept in till say...8am? I have an old man brain in a middle aged (is that what I am?...
What did you do for fun when you were a kid? How is it different from what you see kids doing now? Submitted by jaklumen. For most of my childhood (in 1970s Melbourne), I had a really good friend, Karen*, who lived about three blocks from me. We used to spend most of the weekend wandering or riding...
If you don't like it I will raise my eyebrows and really wonder about you, but I will still give you your four minutes back.
Shawn Lee has just put out yet another new Ping Pong Orchestra album! It's called Miles of Styles and, as the title suggests, it's got the most varied genres of any record in the series (and it's also double the length). The tunes are mostly instrumental, and Lee uses the song titles to telegraph...
