This made my day

From Stuff On My Cat. Totally sweet.



Heather, will you marry me? Love, Jeff.
(McMinnville, Oregon)

Christmas #1

Most of us in the US were introduced to the concept of the 'importance' of the Christmas #1 music single in the UK through the movie, "Love, Actually." This article is quite interesting, but I found this bit particularly true for all music, at holiday time or otherwise....

For all their rabble-rousing punk swagger, meanwhile, The Pogues are best remembered for "Fairy Tale of New York". Held at No 2 in 1987 by the Pet Shop Boys' "Always On My Mind", it has grown into a perennial. Challenged by Elvis Costello to write a Christmas classic, Shane MacGowan's lyrics, finding the remaining sparks of love between a boozing, ageing Irish couple, one possibly dying of alcoholism, allied to Jem Finer's redemptive melody, make a heartbreaking record. It was intended to combat "the torture of packaged party time", Finer told Uncut, and every year its mix of harsh Christmas realism and transcendent romance does just that.

The Pogues proved beyond doubt that Christmas is as rich a time as any to write about, once you fight past clichés; and that you can enter the rhythm of people's lives if you succeed.

(War is Over ) Happy Christmas

Lennon died 26 years ago today. His plea for peace? Still quite relevant.

I'm so smart sometimes

When I first heard about Liam loving 'X-Factor,' I thought to myself, "There is not a chance in hell that Big Brother is going to let Our Kid on that show." Guess what? I was right!

Winter Wonderland

Looking through the gallery of pictures in UK Vogue from the Garrard party, I had the following questions flash through my head.....




1. THAT'S Lisa Moorish? (Mother of both Liam Gallagher AND Pete Doherty's children)









2. THAT'S Jemima French? (fashion designer)

















3. THAT'S a woman? (Designer Selina Blow)

Top Ten

1. Come Pick Me Up- Ryan Adams
2. Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas- Diana Krall
3. Higher Ground- RHCP
4. Welcome To the Black Parade- MCR
5. Nobody Does It Better- Carly Simon
6. 20th Century Boy- T.Rex
7. Hips Don't Lie- Shakira
8. Peacock Suit- Paul Weller
9. Strange Town- The Jam
10. The Eton Rifles- The Jam

*I swear I didn't screw around with the shuffle function to get 8-10... (former) Girl Scout's Honor.

Bonus-
11. Strict Machine- Goldfrapp
12. Thriller- Ian Brown

Darlene Love on Letterman (2005)

To paraphrase a comment from YouTube, it isn't Christmas until the Divine Darlene Love performs this song on Letterman.

Lab overload

Too cute...... So tie-tie....

Freebase

When I saw this on RS's website, I thought, "Holy fuck, why is there a picture of my darling Mani on Rolling Stone online? Did some writer get religion?" Then I realized that the aforementioned website/magazine is 'getting ideas' from nme.com, again.

You know My Name

I'd like to write something eloquent about how much I enjoyed Casino Royale today, but I seem to be only capable of laughing ala Beavis and Butthead, while visions of Daniel Craig's perfectly formed pecs dance through my head. Like visions of sugarplums, only sexy. Grrrr......

So here's the theme song from the movie.

Joy Division

Joy Division, originally uploaded by disco saturday.

Cool pic of Stephen, Hooky, Ian and Barney.

Amy

What a voice! What a mouth!

So, while we have the chance, let us salute not just that song, but its author. Ames has been in trouble of late - first for heckling Bono at the Q Awards (mid-way through his list of thanks, she said "Shut up. I don't give a fuck," which is not exactly Wildean, though it will do), and then thanks to a rum old duet with Charlotte Church on the latter's TV show. (For anyone who missed it, the pair did their thing on a version of Michael Jackson's Beat It, for which Amy tumbled well away from metre, precise diction and other such trifles and played a strange kind of blinder. You can find out more by going on YouTube and looking for "Church, Winehouse", and you will laugh until it hurts.)

Friday Random Ten

1. I Am the Resurrection- The Stone Roses
2. I'll See It Through- Texas
3. Move Your Body- Marshall Jefferson
4. Run, Run Rudolph- Chuck Berry
5. When You Were Young- The Killers
6. I'm Bad- Rick Ross
7. Shoot the Runner- Kasabian
8. Turn Me On- Norah Jones
9. Koko- Goldfrapp
10. Fade Away- Oasis

Bonus-
11. I Feel Fine- Beatles

The Holiday premiere

Though the Go Fug girls chose to focus on the tragic outfit that Cameron Diaz wore to the premiere of her new movie, The Holiday, I feel they missed an opportunity with the get-up that (alleged) stylist Rachel Roy wore to the same event.

Where to start? The coat with the rumpled hem and weird leather trim? Too many necklaces? The pulled-back hair which is much to severe for such a grandma-esque look? Gray handbag with an otherwise brown ensemble? Not to mention that she appears to have forgotten her skirt, but not in a saucy Cleaver-flirting-with-Jones way. Yikes.....


Hold on, Elroy. I think this is THE Rachel Roy that is married to music-type dude Damon Dash, whom I believe is quite successful. Despite the fact that-if he is whom I think he is- he produced Posh's last (unsuccessful) solo album. Rachel! You have money! Get A Tailor. And also, gray and brown? Not so much.

Baby, It's Cold Outside

As it will be December soon, here in the upper Midwest, the weather is starting to turn freezing-ass cold. (Yikes, December starts in about an hour. Crap, I really need to get cracking on my present-buying/requesting).

Due to a front moving through, we're supposed to get between 4 to 304 inches of snow tonight. Though it hasn't started to snow yet, the news channels have begun their "Breaking News" updates. We've no snow yet, but lots of breaking news.

All is well here, though. I have a Kashwere robe, DSL, a snuggly kitty cat and an electric blanket to keep me warm. Those aren't going to do a DAMN thing for me when I have to go to work tomorrow, though. Shit.

Heh

In my eyes, Billy Crudup has been a skeeve for quite some time. While the post is typically funny, the following is what clinched it for me.

Additional Note: The GFY Terror Watch squad would also like to announce that Wilmer Valderrama has been ejected from the "Guarded" category for looking really rather presentable lately, and not at all as if he hasn't slept in three days. Congratulations, Wilmer. He has been replaced by Chad Michael Murray, who, while appearing relatively physically clean, is a Hilton-banging cheating douchebag pig-dog and therefore merits placement on the scale.

Official Order of the Phoenix Teaser Trailer!

Oh, Lord. I am so excited for this movie!

Shoot The Runner

Oh, this is cool.

Gah. GAH! Part two

Oh, FUCK me! And Kasabian opened? Sweet Baby Jesus on a cracker!

Solo acoustic set list-

'It's Good To Be Free'
'Talk Tonight'
'Fade Away'
'Cast No Shadow'
'The Importance Of Being Idle'
'Listen Up'
'Half The World Away'
'Wonderwall'
'Whatever'
'Slide Away'
'Strawberry Fields'
'Don't Look Back In Anger'
'Married With Children'

Country House

Goodness, Damon was pretty, wasn't he? And looky! Matt Lucas from Little Britain!