Yes with socks. Primarily because I am wearing socks that have my name on the side and the wording “gentle, generous and kind” across the bottom. Debate that issue if you must but I think it is quite close to the mark.!
Sorry to everyone who wondered where I was last night… and also to those who knew, hehe. I have been really ill for a couple of days and it knocked my weekend out and my New Year too, and all over a mouth full of dust from a shelf full of ink cartridges. Not nice. If anyone wants any snotty gunk then I have plenty lying around.!
To cheer myself up I have purchased a lovely new 32 inch HDTV for a bargain price from work. I have never seen Felicity Kendal’s baps in The Good Life look better.! Way, and indeed, Hay.
I just had a quick read of Mr Cheek’s Awards for 2007. I used to do the same sort of thing based around music but I am sure you rememeber I have now cut it down purely to one song… the song of the year. The previous winners include Shakira, The Gorillaz and errr, well I can’t remember but surfice to say they were all classics. This year has been a bit easy in a way, but more complex than I expected. Normally when I hear a song I either love it or detest it, it takes a very short amount of noise in my ears to make up my mind and fix a tag of “oh God not that again” or “oooh like this one”.
Certain sounds make me listen to the same song over again due to the sheer fascination that they contain a fraction of a second of a sound I like. For instance, Fergi, that one from the Black Eyed Peas, her song “Big Girls Don’t Cry” is pretty dire but the bit where she sings “I hope you know, I hope you know” it has a certain edge to it that my big lug’oles prick up to. Or in The Suffering where the little twiddly bit on the guitar kicks in at 2 minutes 44 seconds (yes I just checked it against my copy) and leads into the second chorus, it instantly takes me back to Download 2006 every single time. Coheed and Cambria do seem to contain more areas of Fluffy Bunny pleasing music than any other band though. The half spoke, half sung backing vocals and most of their tracks are one of my favourite variations on the theme of getting as much into a song as humanly possible.
Now where was I.? Oh yes, song of the year etc. Well for a song that was stuck in my head for pretty much the whole summer, I think that I can only award it to the dark haired, brown skinned, Klingon foreheaded lady with the gold Ford Sierra…
yes that is correct, Rihanna and her Umbrella have poked their way into the top spot for 2007. It may have made me grind my teeth for a while but dancing with everyone to it, Lemony, Hwang, my bro, Dory, Karl, Alex, looooots of people, really made me laugh. Oh and I DID make a fiver out of that one night so it was certainly worth it.
So that is it for another year. I will be trying harder to write my blogs once more and we shall see what sort of weird hits I get in 2008… see you all at DownLoad 2008 BABY.!!! Wooooo.!
Have a very happy new year, the year of revolution… and of The Ham winning the F1 championship we shall hope.!
Enjoy.!!!