Wednesday Night Music Time

More random music. First up a great track which I will now always associate with a boat roaring back from San Pedro (Belize) to the Norwegian Pearl. I was singing along to this as we zoomed over the Caribbean Sea at the front of the boat. It is also the only band my brother has ever got me into..

And this track will always remind me of the drive on route 1 south in Florida as we drove towards Key West on one of the most spectacular stretches of road in the world (up there with the Cook Highway in North Queensland and the Great Ocean Road in Victoria). A beautiful track by the brilliant Hybrid. Sometimes dance guys really want to be classical composers!

Next up a great video to a top track, which I was introduced to by a great cricketer who came to our work, called Dan Colquhoun. We lost touch, but cheers for lending me the DJ Shadow CDs, sir….

DJ Shadow used to be part of the dance collective UNKLE. This is one of my favourite tracks from their last album, War Stories. One of the few artists I will purchase any album by as soon as possible….

And for the last two tracks by Linkin Park.

I am….

A little Unconfident…

So to one of my favourite songs of my life…

I don’t know what’s worth fighting for
Or why I have to scream
I don’t know why I instigate
And say what I don’t mean
I don’t know how I got this way
I know it’s not alright
So I’m breaking the habit
I’m breaking the habit
Tonight

I don’t want to be the one, the battles always choose….

It Is Time For The Dmitris…

I tried this in another place, and lost interest, so let me see if I can follow through with them this year…

Most loathesome team (All Sport)
Most loathesome sporting individual (All Sport)
Most loathsome sports reporter – press (All Sport)
Most loathsome sports reporter – TV and radio (All Sport)
Most loathsome commentator (All Sport)
Most loathsome sports news presenter (All Sport)
Most loathsome commentator (Football)
Most loathsome commentator (Cricket)
Most loathsome commentator (US Sport)
Most loathsome commentator (Other)
The Lewis Hamilton Award for Least Convincing Excuse
The Steve McClaren Good In A Crisis Award
The Kevin Pietersen Sports God Award
You Should F*cking Retire Now Award
The Ricky Ponting Award for Brazen Hypocrisy
The Andrew Flintoff You Are A Bloody Idiot Award.

And for a couple of positive ones
British Sportsman of the Year
International Sportsperson of the Year
Individual Performance of the Year
Team of the Year
Best Sporting Moment

Any suggestions, most welcome.

Would You? BBC?

I know I am full of the joys in the morning, but BBC Breakfast News rarely disappoints me in raising the blood pressure a couple of unnecessary notches. This morning, in ever-so-slightly mocking tones, they raised up a billboard for bus shelters encouraging people to attend church at Christmas. In its own way this well-meaning attempt to remind people that Christmas isn’t just about stampeding the shops to buy Johnny or Jane the latest toys, games and other such rubbish they’ll soon get bored with, but despite our almost apologetic tone (check out how many cards, especially from companies, use the bollox term “Season’s greetings”) for the festival itself, it is based on religious beliefs. 

How daft. Our key uplifting religious festival is sneered at by our media intelligentsia.  Ho Ho Ho, to borrow a phrase. Look at the church talking about Jesus and stuff….

So on the sofa they had the man behind the campaign and…. an atheist who is bringing out her own nonsense.

I await with baited breath during Ramadhan, or the Eid festivals the BBC putting a Jew or an atheist on the same panel as a member of the Religion of Peace, basically saying to them, we don’t believe your guff. An agnostic up against a Hindu during Diwali to say “are you sure you should be letting all these fireworks off?” And I’ll probably see that at the same time that I dump my wife for Kirsten Dunst (only joking, my gorgeousness!).

It seems the only beliefs we can challenge, the only beliefs we can oppose, are those of the good ole C of E. Would you challenge anyone else, BBC Breakfast News? Eh?