I'm having a well deserved coffee after a late night of excavating fossils. Or plastic bones. Whatever. The amazing Jess gave me the coolest little kit yesterday and like the child that I am I stayed up all night playing with it. While watching Jurassic Park. Of course. I might be taking it a bit too seriously, though. Instead of just hacking into it so that I can build my dinosaur I've been carefully brushing away the dirt so that I don't damage the old (new) fossils (plastic bones). Also, after 6+ hours of brushing dirt in an enclosed room, I can't quite get the dust out of my nose and eyes, which is just great for someone who happens to have a cold.
Anyway, I hope you all have a super cool non-geeky weekend. Unlike myself.
Hello! I'm in the process of unpacking my new house. We've yet to get the internet hooked up, but that doesn't mean I haven't been scoping out some cool things to decorate with. I'm particulary taken with this Face/Off embroidery. Because all new homes need some Nicholas Cage-John Travolta face swapping action.
ANOTHER music challenge. Thanks Morgan. This time we've got the top ten songs from movies, and it is on like donkey kong.
Can't Do Nuttin' For Ya Man - Public Enemy (Three Kings)
Hilarious underrated movie. One of the best bits is where Marky Mark is dancing around to Public Enemy.
Your mother got gold nipples.
Electric Avenue - Eddy Grant (Pineapple Express)
I'd been rocking out to this gem for many years after receiving a CD card with songs from the year of my birth one year from my uncle. Then I saw Pineapple Express and realised I might not be the only person who likes this song. Not long after, it was playing when I was on some bumper cars and of course I had to drive past everyone saying "yeah, Electric Avenue!"
White Lines - Grandmaster Flash (Shaun of the Dead)
We've all done the Shaun and Ed thing of singing this while walking home from the pub. With or without zombie backup singers. You all sniff when you sing along, right?
Another song that's proving that I was born in the year of awesome music.
Stuck In The Middle With You - Stealers Wheel (Reservoir Dogs)
You're listening to K Billy's super sounds of the 70s. This is possibly the best use of a soundtrack I've ever seen. Michael Madsen is so rad.
Wind Beneath My Wings - Bette Midler (Beaches)
Oh, the tears!
You've Lost That Loving Feeling - The Righteous Brothers (Top Gun)
That's right, I chose this one over Kenny Loggins. I once serenaded a kid in a McDonald's drive thru with this. He didn't give me a free frozen coke.
Bye Bye Blackbird - Joe Cocker (Sleepless in Seattle)
Just lovely.
Blaze of Glory - Bon Jovi (Young Guns II)
Bon Jovi AND Emilo Estevez. Surely I'm winning now guys?
No Matter What - Badfinger (Now and Then)
Pretty much the whole Now and Then soundtrack is amazing. Every girl around my age loved that movie and as a result loved 70s music. We really need another movie like this for the current generation so they can appreciate quality like this.
You Make My Dreams Come True - Hall and Oates (The Wedding Singer, but made cool by 500 Days of Summer)
Bonus track that probably should have been on the guilty pleasures list:
Men In Black - Will Smith (Men In Black)
Seriously, I love this. I used to do the dance. Oh yeah.
What a sad day. Since I've packed up nearly every unnecessary thing, it's finally time for Godzilla, Ivan and Ernie to jump in a box that I'll hopefully find within the next few months.
So the music challenge is on again. I blame Morgan. She inspires me. And by inspires I mean makes it really easy to pick on her music choices, so it was only fair to show my super daggy side. This time it's ten guilty pleasures. Not that I feel guilty for liking any of these (obviously I have impeccable taste), but I feel that cool* people would probably judge quite a bit.
*hipster dickheads
Here I Go Again by Whitesnake
Here's a truth bomb for you. I have a Whitesnake shirt that I wear unironically. And while we're talking about guilty pleasures... I got the shirt from KMart.
We Built This City by Starship
Time Of My Life by Bill Medley & Jennifer Warnes
This might have more to do with Patrick Swayze rather than the actual song. I will still listen to it over and over though.
Stay (Faraway, So Close) by U2
I am a closeted U2 fan. I just threw out eight U2 shirts because I'm too ashamed to wear them in public, and one can only have so many bed shirts. I flew down to Sydney for one day just to camp out to see them about five years ago. This was after I'd already seen them in Brisbane, but I ended up too far back because I couldn't get out of work that day. Sydney was much better. I made friends with people in line and we held each other's places when we needed to eat and pee. We laughed together at the losers who turned up late thinking they'd get a good spot. We exchanged email addresses that we never used. We speed walked to the stage because there were signs that said 'no running'. Then I lost them and found new friends. These friends bought a total stranger dinner and got up and danced to Kanye with me even though they didn't like him. In the front row. Totally worth it.
Kokomo by The Beach Boys
Yes, The Beach Boys wrote some awesome songs. I've been told this isn't one of them. I refuse to listen to those haters, though. This one might be awesome because it does have good memories attached to it. It was obviously a hit because of Tom Cruise's amazing cocktail skills, and because of this it was always playing on the radio in our house when I was a kid. Because we were a top 40 non-hipster family, thank you very much.
I also had this weird ass video called Trollies where these creepy little troll dolls would sing covers of popular songs. I might have had a huge collection of troll dolls, so that video was on constant rotation.
Make Me Lose Control by Eric Carmen
I thought that was Tina Turner at the start. Never mind. "Rock" on.
Livin' On The Edge by Aerosmith
Walking in Memphis by Marc Cohn
I went walking in Memphis. I was the only idiot out on the street. People were driving past me looking at me like I was a freak. I'm pretty sure I walked past a statue of one of Forrest Gump's ancestors. I bought apples and donuts at a place called Piggly Wiggly. I pissed off about twenty people waiting behind me in a line as I tried (unsuccessfully) to get my paycheques cashed. I had dinner at 4pm because I was scared to go out alone after dark.
Nobody walks in Memphis.
Like a Prayer by Madonna
I really hate Madonna. But this is the one song I will not only allow, but sing along to when very drunk. And I encourage everyone to get all handclappy and and swaying with me in the gospel bit.
Hot Blooded by Foreigner
It was so hard for me to pick just one Foreigner song, but I think Hot Blooded is probably the most fun.
Foreigner might have saved me one particular night when I was in charge of organising a talent night skit. I had three unmotivated adult campers, but the knowledge that one of them loved Foreigner as much as me, and a best of CD in my bag. Our portion of the night pretty much consisted of me dancing and miming hardcore to Cold as Ice with with three people unenthusiastically swaying behind me. Good times.
Also, there's the Foreigner belt:
And a bonus track that I'm totally not even slightly guilty about because it's just amazing:
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