Name that Tune - Part Deux:

My iPod Mini is on shuffle and the first 10 tunes are listed below...Now it's up to you to identify the song and the artist!

1. Here's a door and here's a window - Accidently Kelly Street - Frente! (Aunty Evil got this correct!)
2. Standing on the beach with a gun in my hand - Killing An Arab - The Cure (Bearette got this correct!)
3. Anyone who's ever had a heart - Sweet Jane - Cowboy Junkies (Mike got the song correct & Lou got the band correct!)
4. And if it rains all day - Great Expectations - Elbow (Liz got this correct - thank goodness for Google !)
5. Busted flat in Baton Rouge, waitin' for a train - Me and Bobby McGee - Janis Joplin (Janet got this correct!)
6. I can be loud man, I can be silent - Zebra - John Butler Trio (Mike got this correct too!)
7. When I get mad and I get pissed - Shitlist - L7 (Lou got this correct!)
8. Superlove is something that they say is very rare - Sex-o-Matic Venus Freak - Macy Gray (Lou got this correct too!)
9. Wake up kids we've got the dreamers disease - You Get What You Give - New Radicals (Janet got this correct too!)
10. The thought of never knowing - Bitter Glass - Feeder (Mike got this one as well!)
    

(Very pretty iPod Mini pic came from here )

The Answers...

It seems that 50% of my musical tastes are too obscure for my regular readers so here are the rest of the answers...

• It was all just a dream, Oh no (15 Minutes - The Strokes)
• What's wrong? What are you afraid of? (She Lives in my Lap - Outkast - the spoken introduction done by Rosario Dawson)
• Camera got them images, Camera got them all (Ted, Just Admit It - Jane's Addiction)
• Well you can give me all your love, And anything else you got too (Baby I Don't Care - Transvision Vamp)
• Freak out, give in (Cherub Rock - Smashing Pumpkins)

A special mention must go to Amy for identifying 3 of the tunes...Applause!

Thanks for playing...

Name that tune...

Blogger Beta & Picasa are being royal pains in the proverbial, so this is a photo-free post until I can sort out the bugs...

I spotted this at Janet's Snapeariffic blog. My iPod Mini is on shuffle and the first 10 tunes are listed below...Now it's up to you to identify the song and the artist!

1. It was all just a dream, Oh no
2. Do what you want, 'cause I'll do anything (Boys on the Radio - Hole - Claire got it!)
3. She came from Greece, She had a thirst for knowledge (Common People -Pulp - Amy got it!)
4. Sittin' on a sack of beans, Sittin' down in New Orleans (Apache Rose Peacock - Red Hot Chili Peppers - Amy got this one too!)
5. What's wrong? What are you afraid of?
6. Camera got them images, Camera got them all
7. This world rejects me, This world threw me away (Burn - NIN - Amy is definitely on a roll!)
8. Well you can give me all your love, And anything else you got too
9. Freak out, give in
10. He's making all these promises you know he cannot keep (There's a Barbarian in the Back of my Car - Voice of the Beehive - My Float got it!)

It's Photoionary...but with words?!

If this is "Hell"...

...Then count me in!

These Hells are for looking at rather than relaxing in!



Umi Jigoku (Sea Hell) in Beppu, Kyushu, was the source of the mysterious billowing steam in this post.



The basket in the shot above contains eggs...the boiling water cooks the eggs to make onsentama...a stinky (because of all the sulphur) but delicious delicacy!



The wooden post in the background says Umi Jigoku.

The Red Sea:

According to Asian Info, Seoul's population is about 10.3 million:


(Image courtesy of FIFA 2006 World Cup)

It looks as though every single one of the
Korean "Red Devils"
(supporters of the Korean national football team)
turned out to watch the World Cup in central Seoul!

 

MMV...

2005 - The year that was...

• January - 5 tonnes of mayonnaise spilled across the Tomei Expressway and created a 5 km traffic jam.
• February - The Yamanote line tightened its scheduled from a 60 minute loop to 58 minutes.
• March - The Bank of Japan announced that it had $715 billion in its vaults.
• April - Japanese high school and university students get 4 hours of sleep a night as they spend so much time on their cellphones and computers.
• May - The Yasukuni Shrine website got 15 000 hits a second.
• June - Yokohama City Hall issued a 27 page manual explaining how garbage should be sorted.
• July - Cool Biz entered our vernacular (not wearing ties and jackets to work to help save the environment!)
• August - A 1 ton bomb dropped 60 years ago in Nishi Tokyo was dug up - 7 000 people were evacuated during the process.
• September - The LDP gained a greater majority than before.
• October - A robotic camera snapped a 26 foot long giant squid 3 000 feet below sea level - it lost a tentacle - all 18 feet of it!
• November - The Yamanote line was nonoperational for 5 hours - stranding millions of commuters.
• December - It snowed - briefly - in Tokyo.

Happy New Year!

Random, useless facts for today:

• Banging your head against the wall uses 150 calories an hour.
• Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.
• George W Bush and Playboy founder Hugh Hefner are cousins!
• The first baseball caps were made of straw.
• Apples are actually part of the rose family.
• One in three male motorists picks their nose while driving.
• Rats can tell the difference between two human languages.
• Goldfish remember better in cold water than warm water.
• A survey reported that 12% of Americans think that Joan of Arc was Noah's wife.
• A completely blind chameleon will still take on the colours of its environment.
• You inhale about 700 000 of your own skin flakes every day.
• More than 10 people a year are killed by vending machines.
• It snowed in the Sahara Desert on February 18, 1979.
• One in three snake bite victims is drunk. One in five is tattooed.
• Astronauts cannot burp in space.
• Snails breathe through their feet.
• Identical twins do not have identical fingerprints.
• The odds of being killed by falling out of bed are one in two million.
• Only female bees work!

Time Waster

Go and spread your new found wisdom!

Brad Pitt vs. Jennifer Aniston...

I just finished watching the Friends episode that Brad Pitt starred in "The One with the Rumor" (November 22, 2001). He played Will Colbert who was overweight in high school and teased by Rachel so much that he and Ross formed the I Hate Rachel club. Interesting how life so often imitates art!

Have you noticed all the latest celeb uncouplings? Jessica Simpson and Nick Lachey are no longer newlyweds...now they are newlyseps. Nicole Richie and her DJ beau have called off their engagement - I guess life wasn't simple enough! Married with Children's Christina Applegate and male model Jonathan Schaech are also divorcing - luckily they never actually had any kids.

And Ashlee Simpson has been hospitalised in Tokyo. She collapsed after a performance on MTV Japan. I guess lip-synching is more exhausting than we give it credit for!

Fave bands from A to Z:

A: Abba & Ash
B: The Black Eyed Peas, The Bangles, Blur, The B-52s & Bananarama
C: Custard, The Cure, Cake, The Cruel Sea & Crowded House
D: The Doors, The Darkness & DefFX
E: Eurythmics
F: The Fauves, Faith No More & Frente!
G: The Gits & Garbage
H: Hole & Hoodoo Gurus
I: INXS
J: Jane's Addiction, The Jesus & Mary Chain, Joy Division & John Butler Trio
K: Kiss
L: L7 & Lard
M: The Mavis's, Machine Gun Fellation & Mudhoney
N: Nirvana, Nine Inch Nails, New Radicals & New Order
O: The Offspring & OutKast
P: Pearl Jam, Pangaea, Pantera & Placebo
Q: Queens of the Stone Age
R: Red Hot Chili Peppers, Regurgitator, Radiohead, RATM, Rammstein, R.E.M., & Rollins Band
S: Stone Roses, Silverchair, Smashing Pumpkins & Soundgarden
T: Tool & The Prodigy
U: Underworld
V: Violent Femmes, Voice of the Beehive, The Velvet Underground & The Verve
W: Weezer, White Zombie & Ween
X: XTC
Y: You Am I
Z: The Zombies

Violence on December 7th...

Pearl Harbor, Hawaii was bombed by the Japanese on this day in 1941 marking the entrance of both Japan and the US into WW2. Interestingly enough, on December 7, 1917 the US declared war on Austria-Hungary - launching them into WW1. And finally Indonesia invaded East Timor on this day in 1975.

Body teaser...

Try this... It will drive you nuts!

It's amazing and takes only seconds to do. It will really boggle your mind. And you will keep trying at least 50 more times to see if you can outsmart your foot...but you can't!

1. While sitting at your desk, lift your right foot off the floor and make clockwise circles.
2. Now, while doing this, draw the number "6" in the air with your right hand.

Your foot will change direction...and there's nothing you can do about it!