Happy Diwali y'all!

In the Shadow of the Moon

Just spent a couple of hours totally absorbed in this fascinating documentary about the Apollo missions and the journey to man taking his first steps on the moon.  The film containss interviews with most of the surviving astronauts of the Apollo program who give fascinating insights - particularly liked Alan Bean who seems a great bloke! (he's now a painter producing some interesting work http://www.alanbeangallery.com/).  There is also some wonderful photography - and the soundtrack works perfectly!  Watched it on blu-ray and it contained loads of extra footage - shame it couldn't have been incorporated into the movie itself though!  May rating 81/100

Hitler finds out about another Downfall parody

Hitler finds out about another Downfall parody - watch more funny videos

The best Tony Soprano impression...ever!!!

This guy is amazing he does a whole bunch of impressions of various Sopranos characters - if you're a fan of the Sops I'm sure you'll enjoy this.  Some bad language, but hey what you gonna do!

Happy Dashain to anyone from Nepal

Imagine - John Lennon

After being on a Beatles trip for a few weeks now I decided to give this another look.  It really is a nicely put together documentary with some well known and some less well know clips of John from childhood, the Beatles through to his solo work.  I particularly liked the clip of the American hippie guy who managed to get into the grounds of John's estate and John comes to the door and is questioned by the guy over the meaning of the lyrics in some of the Beatles songs.  The poor fella is a little 'confused' and thinks some of the Beatles lyrics were personally aimed at him, a man who John had never met!!   John tells the guy that he was just having fun playing with words and there was no hidden meanings.  He then asks the guy if he's hungry and invites him in for breakfast!  How cool is that!
There are also some great studio moments captured on film.  Particularly interesting to see George joining John in the studio during the recording of 'How Do You Sleep?', a scathing attack on Paul McCartney.  Seemingly Ringo visited the studio and was reportedly upset, saying 'That's enough John'.  Thankfully a later interview with John shows that things were much better with John even forseeing the Beatles reforming in the future! Alas! :-( Anyway here are the lyrics:

How Do You Sleep?

So Sgt. Pepper took you by surprise
You better see right through that mother's eyes
Those freaks was right when they said you was dead
The one mistake you made was in your head

Oh how do you sleep?
Oh how do you sleep at night?

You live with straights who tell you you was king
Jump when your mama tell you anything
The only thing you done was yesterday
And since you've gone you're just another day

Oh how do you sleep?
Oh how do you sleep at night?

Oh how do you sleep?
Oh how do you sleep at night?

A pretty face may last a year or two
But pretty soon they'll see what you can do
The sound you make is muzak to my ears
You must have learned something in all those years

Oh how do you sleep?
Oh how do you sleep at night?

Caught up in the hype...again! Damn!

 

Why do I always fall for the hype!!!   You see I love the Beatles, but already have Rockband and I am so crap at it and struggle on easy (though i did discover Man in the Box by Alice in Chains which makes it all worthwhile) and as usual I lost interest in playing it after a while.  When I heard the Beatles Rockband was announced I thought it sounded fun but would be pointless me buying it due to my lack of skill :-) .  But of course like in most cases I got caught up in the hype an bought it the day after release.  To be honest it's great fun and the sound and visuals are top notch, but....I still suck!  Struggling on easy whilst other friends get five stars on difficult is a wee bit frustrating.  It's damn near impossible for someone with my lack of co-ordination  - I blame it on being left handed ;-).  I won't even start on my singing abilities - I go from Barry White to a Bee Gee in a single lyric, with no happy medium - I feel sorry for the neighbours.  Anyway, back on the shelf for you for a while - got Tiger Woods 10 on its way, I've got to be better at that, I can't be worse can I?