Today

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Oh god so utterly buggered. Seven shifts more to go. Somebody kill me now. Wasn't actually unpleasant (children all happy, activities fairly seamless) but soooo tired.

Anyway, given it's going to be quite a while until I'm 100% awake you get a somewhat incoherent post. Sorry.

Just watched the video I taped of stuff on ABC on Saturday Night. First, "the last detective": terrible. Good natured but meandering and dull. Second Jonathan Creek: ok, but I figured out the twist early (pretty much) Amusing seeing Adrian Edmonsen, Julia Swahala and Tamsin Grieg all at once in the same show (in a semi love square with the title character, no less. Afaict)

Last was Rage. Now as it happens on Saturday I watched my Smashing Pumpkins dvd¹ for the first time in years only to discover it was broken, so I ended up watching the few working ones twice, including "Today" (the one with an icecream truck)
Lo and behold, the first video is..."Today". "Oh God", I thought, "Its a smashing pumpkins rertrospective"

But it wasn't. The next video was "Sex and Candy", followed by a bunch of other mid-to-late 90s music I kind of like but don't consider that exciting². I started to wonder who had programmed it, since then there was a few songs I don't know and then a bunch of stuff I really like, such as "milk" by Garbage and "Cookies" by Jackknife Lee.

"What could the connection be?" I asked myself.

Then some bizzare rap about pies. And "Sandwiches". And finally, after an hour of videos, my brain clicked.

Still, at least I geussed the Jonathon Creek twist :)

EDIT: noticed next week is programmed by "Youth Group", sounds interesting.

1. Bought largely because it actually has a decent amount of decent videos on it, unlike most music dvds
2. It was actually amusing to realise (from my memories of the time) that the mixed feelings I had towards pop/rock³ in my early teens as I started listening to it after a lifetime of classic FM was rather similar to how I felt in my early twenties as the infatuation of my late teens wore off.
3. The stuff played on triple J, not Brittany Spears etc

Comments

[sonictail.livejournal.com]

Yay for rage, god bless the late night crack addled videos, if only there was less metal :p

[alias_sqbr]

There was no metal in this one.

But it did make me sufficiently hungry to eat two desserts :)

[infamyanonymous.livejournal.com]

The Julia Swahala eps had weeeeird writers.
That episode with the python and the midget... *shudder*.

[alias_sqbr]

This one had a 12 foot ventriloquists dummy, but otherwise wasn't that weird :)

Hey, according to my spellcheck ventriloquies is a word. But google doesn't seem to know what it means.

[ataxi.livejournal.com]

Heh, I was watching that Rage special while drunk after staggering home from the pub, and the link between all the tracks didn't occur to me at all. I was thinking it was just some 80s/90s retrospective *grin*

Wiley is a grime MC/DJ I think ... does stuff with Dizzee Rascal.

That was the first time I'd ever heard "Bonita Applebum" by ATCQ and a day later I'm hearing it namechecked in a Wu Tang song from 36 Chambers. One of those moments of synchronicity that pop out at you.

[nico-wolfwood.livejournal.com]

still missing the link...

[alias_sqbr]

Which link?

[ataxi.livejournal.com]

Fnord.

[ataxi.livejournal.com]

Food. They're ALL ABOUT FOOD AND EATING.

*grin*

[alias_sqbr]

Also drinking :)

[alias_sqbr]

Evrything is Connected.

You not getting it either makes me feel a lot better :)

[auntpol.livejournal.com]

Oh, Jonathon Creek is back on? I really really liked that show (and not only because Alan Davies is so very very good looking), but didn't like the later seasons that I have seen of it: became far too predictable, really.

[anxiolytic.livejournal.com]

I am SUUUUUURE they mentioned the link somewhere in there. Oh I remember now, it was on the rage website. I was looking through thte playlist and I just could NOT work it out until I saw the title/heading.

Yay for 802.11g