I've just finished reading Salman Rushdie's memoir Knife about the horrifying experience he went through two years ago. Firstly, I'm so grateful that this book can exist. When the attack happened, I was so afraid he wouldn't survive, or might be so severely disabled that he could no longer communicate. Living to tell the tale was the dream outcome ( Read more... )

~ I can't remember what made me start thinking about this, but it strikes me as really odd that I had absolutely no childhood memory of the Medusa in Knightmare. I remembered loads of scenes from the first three series, especially things I found scary - even things like the Oracle which I'm not sure were actually *meant* to be scary - but didn't ( Read more... )

~ "William Shatner hosting a crossword-based gameshow" might have taken the award for most random dream of the night, if it hadn't been followed later by "me performing delicate spinal surgery on a man paralysed from the waist down". Where did THAT come from?! (More recently, today my alarm interrupted a dream in which I was playing a side- ( Read more... )

Happy birthday arcmorality! :)

Well, here we are again... a performer who brought me great joy has left us, and now it's his wife providing us with comfort, insight and words of wisdom. Gems in the rubble ( Read more... )

Well, here we are in Malmö again. We open with the Ally McBeal dancing baby song, which I never knew was Swedish. More local hits play during the flag parade - nice to hear Roxette among a bunch of unfamiliar tracks ( Read more... )

~ I was listening to Keane's discography on YouTube in preparation for the concert, and I got to the song 'Stop For A Minute' which I either hadn't heard before or only listened to once when it first came out. It has an awful rap in the middle, and I burst out laughing at the line "Overcome by the devil's tackle". I mean, it is very impressive ( Read more... )

I went to see Keane at the BIC this week, on a tour entitled 'Celebrating 20 Years Of Hopes And Fears'. I've always been gutted I became a fan too late to catch the original Hopes And Fears tour and they hadn't played some of my favourite tracks (in particular She Has No Time) at the three gigs I'd seen previously, so I really hoped this might be ( Read more... )

Happy birthday, magnificent one whom I adore! ♥ ♥ ♥

(And yes, I know you don't have an *actual* birthday - hence people choosing to mark it on different days - but the important thing is that you are celebrated!)

~ Further to my previous write-ups, it turns out the fourth and final appearance of the HMTMKMKM video on TOTP was in fact just a 30-second clip from the middle of the song, in a montage of "massive hits" from June that year. So yeah, the only time they showed it nearly in full was the first time. Other recent repeats included a couple of airings ( Read more... )