Oh Wow

Shatner also did a version of "Mr Tamborine Man"!!!!

Fan-flippin'-tastic

The "Shatner" version of "Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds" is on I-Tunes!!!

It is a true classic even if he didn't realise that you didn't have to be on drugs to perform it.

New Game To Play

Everyone has played the "Porn Star Name" game....you know where you take your first pets name and your mums maiden name to get your porn star name....I'd be Long John Lofthouse since you ask....

Anyway I was introduced to a new one when listening to Mark Radcliffe's show the other day...the "Northern Comedian Name" game....in this version you take the first name of one of your grandfathers and add your least favourite vegetable......in my case I get Walter Sweetcorn and who wouldn't want to go and see that act!!

Railway Wisdom 1

Now I have not seen either of these films but apparently:

"Hawk The Slayer is better than Krull"

So sayeth a wise member of the British public and who am I to doubt him!!

Waiting Room Update

I was back at the doctors today and can inform you that they must have been playing the same innappropriate CD as the other week as they were playing the favourite song of all asthmatics "Every Breath You Take" by The Police.

I'm going back again next week so I'll see whats on then.

Things You Don't Want To Hear

A couple of weeks ago I was at the Doctors for a check up after my ear/nose problems and while I was sat in the waiting room the appeared to be playing a copy of "Now Thats What I Call The Most Inappropriate Songs For A Doctors Waiting Room...In The World Ever Volume 1".

The first song on was "Everybody Hurts" by REM, swiftly followed by "Who Wants To Live Forever" by Queen. If I hadn't been called in to see the Doctor at that point I'm pretty sure the next track would have been "The Drugs Don't Work".

Should Doesn't Mean Yes

I have to confess that I am not a regular reader of "The Daily Telgraph", I mean who is. However I did find a copy lying around at work today and decided to have a read as the front page was promoting the fact that todays issue contained a new column written by Armando Iannucci, a big favourite of mine from programmes such as "The Day Today", "The Friday Night Armistice" and "I'm Alan Partridge".

Well he didn't dissapoint. He went "off on one" and had a good rant about "Big Brother" and there was one bit in particular that I had to share with you. He was talking about the story that when the creator of "Big Brother" was informed that Michelle and Stuart were having sex during last years show he rushed over to the studio because "that was where history was being made!!". The bit I loved was:

"Do you remember History? Basically it now goes like this: Caves, Henry the Eighth, Abdication Crisis, JFK being shot, Apollo moonlanding, the miners strike, two people rutting under a table."

Class

Also now is a good time to recommend Armandos new series "The Thick Of It" which is on BBC4 on a Thurday Night at 10.30. It stars Chris Langham as a put-upon MP continually harassed by Number 10's policy enforcer and dependent on his not-so reliable team of civil servants. . There are some clips on the website to give you a taster.