Songs Of The Moment
My June playlist features songs that leans towards the rock genre. There was a month where hip-hop acts flooded my playlist. Another month, jazz and classical music. And yet another month, electronic music. I'm glad I don't dress like the artists I listened to. WIth different genres of music, I will look either like a complete wacko or unbelievably cool. Let's choose the latter option, shall we?

After an influx of new music introduced to me, I can't decide on one song to name it my Song Of The Moment; these songs are looped on the iPod every single day.

Do You Believe In Rapture? by Sonic Youth
My long time indie heroes produced a new album and I'm just blown away by the simple arrangement of beats and their trademarked and often copied sound; jangly guitars, set on overdrive.

Throw It All Away by Zero 7
It's their first single from the band's latest album, The Garden. I like the song for the happy, bouncy, guitar solo. Sounds a bit Spanish, and yes, it made me play air guitar when I play the song. The album doesn't disappoint either. Buy, buy!


And Then You Kissed Me (Part 2) by The Cardigans
I haven't had the pleasure to listen to Part 1 of the same title found in their earlier album; I'm glad not to have missed listening to Part 2 of the song.

I'm not a Cardigans fan until recently. I've always like female singers, and when Nina Persson voice and lyrics permeat my ears, it feels like she's whispering and baring herself with this song. And oh, the album cover is simply gorgeous. It shows her being photographed, lying on floor, immaculately dressed, posing as a dead person, but with a slight smile sunning her face.

Intermission

The Marx Brothers in one of their classic movies. Imitation is flattery; this scene has been copied to death.

KOOKOO KHACHA!


This has got to be TV's most wacky scene. It's from Arrested Development, a comedy about a dysfunctional, spoiled American family.

Have you heard...
...about a young Swiss designer who came to work in London?
On the first evening, he went out to dinner. He ordered fried potatoes and a 'bloody' steak. The waiter blinked, wrote down the order and came back ten minutes later.

"Here," he said, "is your bloody steak."

"And 'ere," slamming them down, "are your fucking chips."

Well, that's London. If this Swiss designer ordered the same food at Newton Food Centre, he would be served a plate full of dead flies and a satay stick (sounds like steak what) soaked in blood.

Yeah...they rock

Collected trivia
HIABLM
Remember HAL? The computer which took control in Stanley Kubrick's film epic 2001: A Space Odyssey. It may be coincidental but alphabetically H precedes I, A precedes B and L precedes M.

A history lesson
England was called Brittania.
Then the Jewish tribes came in and they were Yiddish and they used a lot of "ISH" so they called them British.