June 2009
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#34: "Ironic" - Alanis Morisette (1996)
Oh Alanis. You’ve always looked like a really butchy butch. It always makes me giggle hearing you cram one too many a syllable in a phrase. I still cringe when you do that warbly thing with your voice, especially when you pair it with jarring overpronounciation of words like fine (faiyaaiin) and yeah (yeaheahhh).
Also, that thing where you curl your arms inwards like you’re...
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Billie Jean by Jason Mraz & Nikki Kerkhof,...
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#33: "Buses and Trains" - Bachelor Girl (1998)
Didn’t think much of this song when it went big. Motivational song for women by a lesbian-looking girl with bad hair.
In 1998, I had a crush on a freckled Chinese girl at school. I haven’t come across any freckled Chinese girls since.
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#32: "Black Coffee" - All Saints (2000)
Admittedly, All Saints never really stood out apart from being an edgier (see tatoos and street togs) option to the Spice Girls, S Clubs and Atomic Kittens of the time. They did trump the major players on the ratio of good-looking vs ugly members (3:1) and by comparison, they had the best looking member named “Melanie”.
Bonus: I Know Where It’s At (when they were still...
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Dog Gets High On Pot Found In Park
“His eyes were kind of glossed over, very out of touch, I mean, he didn’t seem to recognize me at first,” Nestor Waddell said. “When he was trying to walk, he was looking at his paw, and then looking at the ground and then trying to get his paw to reach the ground, but was unsuccessful.”
“He was just… stoned,” said owner Jen Nestor Waddell.
This...
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#31: "Out Of My Head" - Fastball (1999)
Imagine you’re driving towards Mexico, sunset in the background and you wish there was appropriate music playing to paint the soundscape of your journey. You suddenly realise you look a bit like Sam Rockwell and you’ve got the penchant for writing pleasant but unspectacular one-hit wonders. You are the dude from Fastball. Warning: music video is a terribly boring montage of...
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#30: "Legacy" - Mansun (1998)
Today’s lucky number is #30 which means it’s time to pay tribute to Mansun, spotlighting “Legacy” from their second album, Six.
A creepy stop-animation video using dolls (ala Team America) that captures the rise and demise of rock band, from garage band jam sessions, gay photo shoots to the eventual divorce against the backdrop of a trashed hotel room as Paul...
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To Watch: Zombieland
I’m not huge on hardcore zombie flicks especially when the gore is gratuitous and the the story is about as compelling as a Sunday sermon with a soft-spoken priest with a lisp.
BUT I do have a soft spot for zom coms (yes, it’s a term now) cause if you’re gonna waste 90 minutes of your time on zombies, it may as well be 90 minutes of humorous zombie-killing depravity. Did I...
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#29: "Up On The Downside" - Ocean Color Scene...
Nearly 10 years on, it’s still hard to believe that Simon Fowler sox cox.
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#28: "Hate To Say I Told You So - The Hives (2000)
I don’t remember their songs as much as I remember how they looked - like a band of very high Swedes (see grossly protruding eyeballs and intensely jolly leg stomping) that mastered the art of monochrome dressing.
In 2000, we had a dog called “Babe” (named because of her uncanny resemblance to the piglet named such). She got hit by a car and I buried her in our yard. Her...
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Nine Facts I Learned by Listening to LFO's "Summer...
WTF. This totally makes the song nine times more ridiculous. This was #7 in my music video retrospective.
1. New Kids on the Block had a bunch of hits. 2. There was a good man named Paul Revere. 3. Michael J. Fox was Alex P. Keaton. 4. Lead singer Rich Cronin likes Kevin Bacon, but he hates Footloose. 5. He also likes the color purple, macaroni and cheese. 6. And Chinese food makes him sick. 7....
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#27: "Candy" - Mandy Moore (1999)
This song popped up on Joanne’s radio in the office recently and it sparked a Mandy Moore retrospective. God, how I hated that bitch and her stupid, smug-jawed face.
Interesting trivia about the video: Scarlett Johannsson is somewhere in it. If you make it thru the grating, conceited “I’m too sexy for you” expression and the awkward dance moves seemingly choreographed...
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What type of student were you?
School life seems like it happened eons ago. I had the misfortune of attending many different schools (5 by the time I was done with secondary school), having to make new friends and the whole shebang. But no matter where I went, there would always be a few cookie-cutter moulds in every place I ended up at. In the guy camp there would be the predictable stereotypes: greasy nerd with protruding...
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FML: Greek mythology style!
This should tickle you if you’re a fan of mythology in general. There be a lot of sad bastards getting beaten by the shit-coated end of the stick.
“Today I came up with a plan that helped my country win a 10-year war. But, because I forgot to pray to Poseidon, I won’t get to go home for another 10 years. FML” - Odysseus
“Today my father made wings out of feathers...
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