One of the best cover songs…
House of the Rising Sun by Muse
Not only is the lead singer sexy as hell, but they did this song which makes me CRUMBLE I love it so much.
WOW.
Summer 2008: I can’t wait
Batman: The Dark Knight is released – I cannot wait. Enough said.
Mindless fun with Sand
Time for something completely different pointless. Make patterns and movements in falling sand to amuse yourself in those simple moments…
5 Videos to Watch Today
Here are a few class videos to watch today pinched from the archives of my Facebook funwall.
Some old, some new, but all 100% rocking.
As usual just click on the title to watch…
A personal favourite – this has to be THE cutest thing since, well, puppies.
Watch this all the way through – it gets much better. If you really can’t wait, the best bit is at 1 min 18 seconds in…
2. This is the least of your problems… [not work safe]
Well, only been blogging a few days and already we have seen my second reference to pilots.
This video has a serious moral message but it’s pretty funny at the same time!
This is quite long, nearly 10 minutes but my god it is amazing to watch. This Chinese dude just makes art piece after art piece from sand without stopping… breathtaking talent you just have to see.
This is HILARIOUS – the poor sales guy towards the end…
The noises this thing makes – I want this as my pet!
More coming soon!
The Price of Buses
Today, it cost me £2.50 to make a bus journey in Bristol of 4 stops. Thats about half a mile distance or so.
I was (unusually) speechless and could only muster a brief “That’s Disgusting” effort to the driver…
And they wonder why people refuse to give up their cars? I am going out of my way to BUY a car!
Vocabulary Issues
Today, I used the term “gift wrap” instead of “wrapping paper“.
V (my long suffering friend and work colleague) found this inexplicably hilarious.
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Christmas…
…is only a week away.
I thought it was like, two weeks away.
I haven’t started my Christmas shopping yet.
Welcome to My World – Where time stands still or doesn’t exist.
20 Songs I Think You Should Listen To
Having recently got a brand new laptop to replace the ridiculous heap of metal I used to own kick around the room, I am spending a rather disturbing number of hours re-discovering fantastic songs.
So to share my aural (watch it) pleasures, here are a selection of 20 fantastic songs you should listen to, in no order (as a word of warning my taste in music is as random as this blog). I have plenty more but these will do for now.
Click on the song titles to play online (courtesy of You Tube)…
From the Cruel Intentions soundtrack…this song is very sexy. I love the film, too.
2. Freemasons Ft. Bailey Tzuke – “Uninvited”
Fairly recent – truly haunting and very beautiful vocals, I hope Bailey does more stuff like this.
3. Ultrabeat – “Pretty Green Eyes”
A big club classic this one. With good reason! And the girl in the video is so damn hot it makes me sick!
4. Lupe Fiasco Ft. Matthew Santos – “Superstar”
I’m not normally into hip-hop/rap stuff, but this song just has such a gorgeous chorus I just fell in love with it although I think that part is credited to Matthew Santos (see #11)
If you’ve ever seen the film Almost Famous, this is the memorable tour bus singalong moment and makes you want to group hug everyone around you.
Dave Grohl did an amazing acoustic version which is here - worth a look, he gets everyone to join in film-style, it’s great.
I love this film in a way I can’t describe, I think because I have been and want to be Penny Lane and really feel what this film is about, and so this song kind of encapsulates all of this for me.
“I have to go home”
“You ARE home..”
Rock on.
6. Letters to Cleo – “I Want You To Want Me”
Another movie song, this time from 10 Things I Hate About You. I just love this girlie rock band’s cover of the Cheap Trick classic 
This song is commonly listed as being sung by Nine Inch Nails as a demo song but in fact it’s sung by Vinyl Sun, I mean it doesn’t even sound like Trent Reznors voice, but either way its a really sexy industrial rock song. Go listen…
8. Gouryella – Binary Finary 1999 (remix)
There are so many remixes of this song it’s hard to pick a definative one, but the linked You Tube is probably my personal fave. 100% euphoric trance classic, this one.
9. Red Hot Chili Peppers – “Under the Bridge”
An old one, this, but still a beautiful and chilled out classic and famously murdered by All Saints who ponced around in their teenybop moments probably not understanding the songs sadder interpretations… sigh…
10. Ida Corr vs Fedde Le Grand – “Let Me Think About It”
I do like Fedde Le Grand’s stuff – this one being no exception. Funky and hot this is definately one to dance to…
11. Matthew Santos “Fill my Cup”
I found this accidently on You Tube looking for Superstar – and Oh.My.God this song is just…well… it sends shivers down your spine with its harmonies and his voice. Keep an eye out for this guy and check out his other stuff – I am limiting myself to just the one of his songs for this list otherwise it would turn into the Top 20 Matthew Santos songs heehee 
12. Christina Aguilera – “Dirty”
OK, so you’ve heard this one before. And I don’t care if it is Christina Aguilera, at the height of her sluttiness, I do like this song and I think its fantastic to dance to – and damn her hair rocks in this video. Shame it spawned a multitude of cheap chav-a-like styles across Britain…
13. Britney Spears – “Gimme More”
OK, I couldn’t put Christina on the list without Britney. And despite her recent nutcase bad mother reputation, I can’t help but liking this song. My jaw dropped when I first saw the video, wondering just how much more she was planning to push the “slag” boundary, but then the tune began to catch. And I know I am not the only one…
14. When In Rome – “The Promise”
Film fans will recognise this as the closing song from one of the best recent cult films, Napoleon Dynamite. I love ND – it’s one of those movies that you can put on at any time of the day or night and then not be able to turn off – utterly compelling. And this song just makes you feel all warm and fuzzy inside since you know that Napoleon and his girl are going to have a happy lifetime of Ligers and Tater Tots.
15. Lily Allen -”Littlest Things”
It was a toss between this and Oh My God (Mark Ronson) but to be honest I love all of her stuff. Whatever you might decide about her as a person, she has a beautiful light voice and really pretty songs.
This one in particular is quite true to long term relationships where you reminisce about the ‘beginning’ when things were still fresh and full of spark, well at least I did, and this song meant a lot to me for that very reason. Pass the tissues, someone…
16. Nine Inch Nails – “Closer”
Dark, Heavy, Sexy but deliciously good.
With a line like “I wanna fuck you like an animal”, don’t be suprised that this song and video is not work safe.
17. Paul Weller – “You Do Something To Me”
Everyone has heard this one before – its another classic love song with a gorgeous melody 
18. Craig Armstrong Ft. Liz Fraser – “This Love”
Another one from the Cruel Intentions soundtrack. This is haunting and really sad but beautiful. Reminds me a lot of the Silent Hill songs (I’m a BIG SH fan) – that kind of slow piano and vocals.
I’ve just realised that so many of these songs are sad/dark/depressing. I promise I am not trying to depress you, ummm next time there will be more happy songs, OK??
19. Joan Jett and the Blackhearts – “I Love Rock N Roll”
OK, it was either this or another sad song, so I went with this!!!
True rock chick song so put another dime in the jukebox, baby 
20. Nine Inch Nails – “Dead Souls”
Another NIN I’m afraid but they are a wicked band. This one’s actually a Joy Division cover, and featured on The Crow soundtrack. It’s a beautiful song, really dark but for me, a weird mix of depression and euphoria as well. Kind of like Manic Depression in a song.
And don’t even get me started talking about The Crow, being one of my favourite films ever………….
Enjoy…
Welcome pretty things!
Hello
I’m Danielle. Welcome to my new blog (with a rather long title that I can’t be bothered to write).
I guess the pilot (I meant to write POLITE but it came out wrong, clearly I am thinking about Pilots too much which may be a side effect of having watched Mile High earlier this evening and as you will learn over the course of this blog, a result of my slightly worrying obssession with commercial aviators). Let’s try again…
I guess the polite (that’s better) thing to do is to introduce the purpose of this blog since it doesn’t offer any immediate answers through the title:
Why?
There are indeed millions of blogs today, so I am not writing this one with any hopes of it becoming well-read or anything – the reason I started it is because I got fed up not having a decent outlet to inform (warn?) people about things I like or dislike, and of course writing posts is quite like therapy, and we all need some of that.
When will facebook develop a proper blogging facility?!
Until they do – this new blog must suffice.
What?
I should warn you that unlike most blogs, this one doesn’t have a theme except whatever random thought is occupying my brain at the time, therefore please expect posts about literally anything, but most likely rants and observations about love, money, work and life and the world in general, music, film, travel, fashion and damn cool websites and geeky stuff.
When?
I’ll update it whenever I have something to post. Whenever possible, at least once a day but probably more because I do talk a lot…
So, feel free to add my blog to your favourites if you want a bit of randomness injected into your life and contact me with any comments or questions.
