Entries from February 2007

February 22, 2007

Vids featuring a drawn-out descent

If, like me, you suffer from vertigo that could rival being perched aloft Kim Novak’s perky bouffant as she dashes up that damn bell tower, then just grip the base of your swivel chair, clamp your feet to the floor, and moderate that shallow breathing as best you can.
Dayvan Cowboy – Boards of Canada
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February 21, 2007

Vids featuring teamwork or something like it

Teamwork: [Teem-wurk]
– noun
1. cooperative or coordinated effort on the part of a group of persons acting together as a team or in the interests of a common cause.
2. work done with a team.
3. something I purport to know zip-o about as I am an only child (hence charmingly selfish by nature and nurture).
So, like the [...]

February 18, 2007

Vids featuring robots and a potential new best friend

Deep down, who doesn’t wish their best pal was a robot? They’d always be there, with cool connections to the NASDAQ, beeping ‘buy’ or ‘sell’ with calm authority. If you’re feeling down, they’d give you a refreshing metallic hug for as long as you like, never getting bored or accusing you of being a ‘taker’. [...]

February 17, 2007

Vids featuring a hot pursuit

There’s nothing quite like a hot pursuit, eh? I know I like to instill a little excitement in my life with an everyday hot pursuit or the illusion thereof, be it:
a) Driving over the speed limit while scoping the “scene” ahead with binoculars and/or an arsenal of high-powered telescopes;
b) Entering the supermarket with an understated [...]

February 16, 2007

Vids featuring fuzzy guitars and a kiss

Around the time these vids came out, if I’d been asked to compile myself a curriculum vitae (and I didn’t need one for working the drive-thru after school at KFC, as I recall) I would have listed my preferred hobbies as:
a) Kissing
and
b) Listening to anything with way fuzzy guitars, that would (and continues to) send [...]

February 15, 2007

Vids featuring the name ‘Mona’

So one of my nicknames is ‘Mona’. A bunny-toothed kid named Jamie made it up in year 8 humanities class and, in some circles, it has stuck like an errant compass.
Here are two songs with the name ‘Mona’ in them. An also-astonishing thematic link is the fact that both vids feature former Neighbours stars with [...]