'Shocking' to know that this one is from the late '80-ties, so about 20 years ago! Which was also roughly my age when I heard it for the first time, and gosh I loved it. Still do actually. You never get too old for stuff like this, especially when it brings up memories of the days when I was young, "wild" and... of which I don't want to think about too much as it WILL make me feel old...
J
Spending days now without Internet access available whenever I want, makes me realise how much influence it has on daily life. Thank God I didn't have to go 'cold turkey', as now and again I can nick someone's computer for a while but still, it feels like going back to basic life. You know, the days when you read the newspaper early in the morning, instead of Google News... when you were waiting for a letter to be delivered by mail, p-mail that is, postman-mail instead of e-mail. That kind of business...
Hopefully in a few weeks time I'll be fully online again. There's nothing wrong with basic but no internet is horrible. The words "Back to basic" reminded me of one of Amy Winehouse's songs, a great one... back to black.
J
About 40 min's ago or so, I signed in to my blog account to write a new post. Usually, before I get to that, I check out some of my fav sites/blogs (see list of them somewhere in the sidebar).
This time, I didn't get far. I got stuck at Flea's blog and that was it. And, like I said, it's 40 min's (or so) later. Now I am a bit of a Flea-fan (huge actually, but I don't want to give any of you the impression that I'm getting a bonus out of this or something), which means:
Now this is a cracker! And as I am nearly old and sometimes lazy, I'll quote Oskpeturs writing (from YouTube):The oldest and greatest rock band in the world - meet The Zimmers and their amazing cover of The Who's "My Generation".
Lead singer Alf is 90 - it's quite something when he sings "I hope I die before I get old". And he's not the oldest - there are 99 and 100-year-olds in the band!
The Zimmers will feature in a BBC TV documentary being aired in May 2007. Documentary-maker Tim Samuels has been all over Britain recruiting isolated and lonely old people - those who can't leave their flats or who are stuck in rubbish care homes.
The finale of the show is this group of lonely old people coming together to stick it back to the society that's cast them aside - by forming a rock troupe and trying to storm into the pop charts.
Some massive names from the pop world have thrown their weight behind The Zimmers... The song is produced by Mike Hedges (U2, Dido, Cure), the video shot by Geoff Wonfor (Band Aid, Beatles Anthology), and it was recorded in the legendary Beatles studio 2 at Abbey Road.
Look out for the single being released from May 21 - with proceeds going to a good cause.
And check out more photos and info at:
www.myspace.com/thezimmersband
I thoroughly enjoyed watching the video, although it leaves me with mixed feelings... it's ab fab seeing those "old people" have such fun, even being naughty (the end bit is classic!). But at the same time it's quite sad that this is what they have to do to get a bit of attention... makes me want to sing along with Alf - I hope I die before I get old
So I hope everyone is going to be naughty too (again/as usual), and use this link to
copy&paste / publish / tag / post / and what have you
to create as many referrals so even the Google-people get nervous.
I mean, wouldn't it be great if this one hits the pop charts all over the world??!! They deserve it!
J
