In preparation for a “Men we love to watch” post later today, here is my favourite a-ha song of all time. I’d say 99% of people reading this will never have heard this song before, so click play and turn it up, then close your eyes. You won’t miss any lovely Morten photos because the video is just cartoons but it is the only version of this song I can find on you-tube. Enjoy.
Drop back a little later for Morten in pictures. ;)
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Blogging Chicks Comment Challenge.
I mentioned yesterday that I was setting myself a new blog commenting task.
So, there’s apparently 820 blogging chicks blogs. If I comment on 10 per day, this will take me 82 days. :) Just under three months. And, during that time surely more will be added to the blogroll.
I really don’t think I have the time for an all out comment assault like NaBloPoMo was, where I was doing 100 comments a day. Even 20 might be a stretch at the moment given everything on my plate. However, if I push myself to do 100 a day it will take me 9 days which is much more reasonable to me. I’ll have to see how it goes. I want to be able to keep on top of all my other projects as well – and keep up with my art, and watch at least two West Wing episodes a day.
If you are a blogging chick who has arrived here after I have commented on your blog and you would like to try challenging yourself to comment, you might want to bookmark this page – it has all the current blogs on it. Once you click on a link, it should change color which makes it easier to keep up with who you’ve read.
And, in honor of Paris Hilton going to prison, here’s a lovely a-ha song named Cosy Prisons which almost could have been written about her if you listen to the lyrics. ;) Enjoy! But be warned, once this song gets inside your head it’s going to be there for a while.. ;)
Remember what I said here about an a-ha secret? :) I liked the light show on this one though, and I already posted the live version of this song before.
Morten Harket from a-ha is on the list of men I love to watch, keep an eye out for that post coming to you as a surprise soon.. ;) I almost did it today but got sidetracked, the a-ha DVD’s are sitting here on my desk so I can take my own screenshots.
Beyonce – Women we love to watch.
I realised recently that I was being a bit.. sexist.. here on Life in the country, because I did not have any posts titled women we love to watch. So I think it is high time we did. There’s quite a few women I can’t take my eyes off, and Beyonce is one of them.
Now, I bring to you the wonderful delights of Beyonce. ;) Including Beyonce in a Bikini, especially for the guys reading this blog. I hope you enjoy it, if you do leave a comment and I’ll do more of these types of posts. ;)
She takes fashion risks often – but she really can wear almost anything and look great in it.
She has a love for fishnet stockings, especially on stage.
She seems to like to use her laptop in rather odd places. Now that’s really wireless – and great advertising for Apple!
Beyonce has arrived and departed from many airports. I actually saw her at the Adelaide Airport some years ago. She’s really short, even with incredibly high heels on. What was surprising was the amount of luggage that the entourage van collected long after the entourage had departed the airport. I’ve never seen so many bags, however they weren’t all for her, Destiny’s Child was on tour.
You wouldn’t want to be the person the bodyguard is looking at like that, I think. ;)
JayZ is looking pretty good these days, too. ;)
But not quite as good as Beyonce looks. She is gorgeous.
>My favourite song by Beyonce is Crazy In Love, which is old school Beyonce and has a brilliant video clip, in my opinion.
If you liked this post, make a comment. :) If I get enough comments, I might do a similar post for Kylie Minogue and a few of my other favourite ladies soon..
If you’d like to see some of the Men we love to watch posts, click here for Rob Lowe and Christian Slater.
10,000 visitors
Sometime over the next day or two this blog will hit 10,000 on the counter. And what a fun journey it has been so far. ;) If you’re the 10,000th visitor make sure to leave a comment!
It is really cold here at the moment, something like 6 degrees. My fingers are ice cold. I think it must be snowing in the snowy mountains and a quick look at the webcams show that they did get snow yesterday, and no wonder because it was something like -4 degrees.
I had this dream last year that I went to the snow with the other half and for some reason Guy Sebastian was there skiing. Odd. But me just typing what I typed above reminded me of that dream so strongly that I went on a little Guy Sebastian you tube trip down memory lane. ;) I tried to find something nice to put here so it wasn’t a wasted journey but nothing felt right, so no music for you. Sorry about that. :)
Offensive Caterwauling
Most female singers are ok, you can tolerate them while you’re grocery shopping, many of them don’t even intrude on your consciousness. However there is one female singer who I find extremely irritating not to mention offensive.
We like to go shopping late, once all the people are out of the way. So on Friday night we left here at 8:21 (yes I noted the time cos we were running late) and went to Woolworths which closes at 9. We got a nice $4 roast chicken – bargain! – and had almost completed our shopping. I was standing in front of the desserts cabinet contemplating a special on apple crumble when the most horrific caterwauling broke into my train of thought.
It was Anastacia and the track was the most offensive of all Anastacia songs in my opinion – it was “Paid my dues”. The other songs, I can almost tolerate but this song is one of the worst examples of female singing. Ever. About 2:45 into the song, there is an offensive barrage of very annoying shouting which I guess she calls singing.
Not even Mariah Carey and her stupid high pitched screaming can come close to this song on the scale of annoying – and Mariah rates quite high on the scale of annoying.
As far as the woman herself is concerned, good on her for battling cancer, she’s probably a really lovely person, I’m not a fan of the glasses or the singing but to each their own and if people like it they can play it in their own cars and in their own houses, that’s fine, but for Christ’s sake do not play this music in the supermarket when people are trying to shop! Especially not that song.
An a-ha secret..
Like any of us, the lead singer of a-ha Morten Harket can have an off day from time to time. If it happens to be a day when he is going to be singing live, this can turn into an absolute disaster – it happened at Live 8 when there were problems with the sound. He’s the kind of guy who really wants to get things right, and his distress when it doesn’t is always evident.
But when you release an album, you are sent on a seemingly endless round of tv shows to promote it. Many of these TV shows are not set up to actually cope with a live performance and they want you to *GASP* lip sync. For some performers this is not a bad thing. For Morten it seems to be pure torture. He can’t seem to look the crowd in the eye, it’s like he feels like he’s lying to them. He’s not really. The voice being played is his. He sang the song originally, and could easily sing it that day.
But those of us who are Morten fans know when he’s singing for real, and I’m going to now share with you the secret of why.
Looks like a nice photo, right? Well, the zoom in is what is important.
If these little earpieces are not in the ears, it isn’t him singing. And you’ll see him adjust them while he’s singing, so you can’t really miss the fact that they are there.
When Morten has a good day, he really has a fantastic day.
Metallica is scary..
So, Saturday the people across the road and their kids spent two hours out on their front lawn playing sport of some kind, and along with it went two solid hours of constant yelling, screaming, shouting, crying, and various other annoying noises. I’m not joking when I say solid, they did not shut up once, and it was so loud I think the kids must have hurt their throats.
Apparently not, because on Sunday they were back for two hours more. And I was actually trying to sleep at the time, because I’d woken up with a headache from hell and spent the rest of the day trying to get rid of it by sleeping it off.
You can bet two hours of them yelling and screaming did not go down well with me. They’re lucky I didn’t go out there in my sleeping attire and do some yelling and screaming of my own.
Monday, the school bus got home, and within one minute the kids started yelling and screaming. Within ten minutes the whole family plus some extra random kids from around the neighborhood were out there. I still had a dull version of the headache from the day before, and tried to drown them out with a movie. One hour and forty minutes later, I snapped.
I stormed into the kitchen and grabbed the Metallica DVD that we have. I took it into the big lounge with the big stereo system (that I never turn up over 25) and loaded it in there. Enter Sandman. I turned the volume up to 10 and went into the kitchen to get some headache tablets.
When I got back just three minutes later, the subwoofer had danced across the floor all by itself, there’s some vicious drumming in that song, and when I looked out the window, there was nobody to be seen. Probably they all ran inside to read their bibles and hide from the satanic music. I think all the other neighbors were actually thrilled and possibly inspired as to how to get rid of them next time.
Later that evening we were summoned to my parents house, probably 800-1000 metres away. I told my Mum what I’d done, and she said “That was you?” damn, it must have been loud. ;)
And today, thankfully, no screaming people. If they come back, it’ll be Metallica in 10 minutes next time. It’s just so inconsiderate to make so much annoying noise. I rarely make any noise here, the stereo is always at a reasonable level and I go outside to make sure it isn’t too loud that it would annoy anyone.
They only got 5 minutes of how much noise I’m happy to produce on a regular basis if they want to keep it up. Plus if they really upset me, my parents have the subwoofer of champions just down the street which I could borrow. ;)
I really love Metallica, by the way, everything up to St Anger, and I think many of their songs are true classics. It’s even better when you watch the film clips. But the choices are not limited to that. I think a bit of Marilyn Manson might really freak them out. It makes one wonder, what music would I need to play in order to inspire them to move out completely?
Post 300
Yeah I wrote a lot. :)
In other news, over the last few days some kind of theme has popped up and I’m not really sure why. I caught a very fascinating doco/biography on one of the movie channels this morning. George Michael – A Different Story – which was really interesting and there was a lot of stuff I didn’t know. And the day before, I saw an episode of Morgan Spurlock’s 30 days. The show is a little difficult to explain, but the episode I saw they took a guy who was quite prejudiced against gay people, and he lived with a gay man as a room-mate for 30 days as well as moved to a place in San Francisco which has a large population of gay and lesbian people.
Now let me state right now, I have no issue with gay people at all. Lesbians, well I had a scary experience in which two very butch ladies pushed in front of me in the queue at the chicken shop recently. It was terrifying. They both had shaved heads, and they could have crushed my skull with their pinky fingers, more than likely. They clearly wanted chicken desperately, and who was I to stand in their way? Other than that, whatever people want to do in the privacy of their own bedroom is fine by me.
And I think marriage between two people who love each other should be fine regardless of who those people are or what sex they might be. And if two people who love each other want to walk down the street holding hands or showing affection, no problem. As long as they don’t strip off and get jiggy with it, and I’d object to that whether it was a guy and a girl or two guys or two girls, because I really don’t think sex in the streets is a wise idea. There’s broken glass, and stuff. You have to be careful. I wouldn’t even go barefoot, but that’s just me. Each to their own.
What I do have an issue with is prejudiced people. And I think shows like Morgan Spurlock’s show really can have an impact on people and their prejudices. If you get a chance to see it, in particular that episode, it was worth watching.
Because George Michael kept so much of his life private (which is entirely his right, by the way, and I fully support him doing that) I did not know many things about him. I grew up in the days of Wham, and like most girls totally adored him and I have to say have a new respect for him after watching that doco. Anyway, I found it interesting. :) Just thought I’d share.
A song.
Do you know women who control men with sex? I know of one or few, and surprising as it is to me that anyone will shag them, sometimes men just need somewhere to put it i guess but I can think of better places. Like the fleshlight, which gets very good reviews. Or perhaps fruit. You can’t get a sexually transmitted disease from fruit, as far as I know.
So I heard a song which reminded me of a woman I know who is like that, and then I found this lovely you tube video which I thought I would share. :) The ladies will certainly like it.
best song lyric ever
Random acts of mindlessness Common place occurrences
Chances and surprises Another state of consciousness
Tell me nothing ever counts Lashing out or breaking down
Still somebody loses ’cause There’s no way to turn around
Tell me how you’ve never felt Delicate or innocent
Do you still have doubts that Us having faith make any sense
You play games, I play tricks Girls and girls, but you’re the one
Like a game of pick-up sticks Played by fucking lunatics
Seriously I do believe that is my favourite song lyric of all time. It comes from T.A.T.U. and I really don’t remember too much about them however their songs are on the playlist and have been for a long time, and I really like them. Here’s the video of the song the lyrics appear in, the boys (and men) will enjoy it..