Work… ergh.
Well, I’ve moved desks again at work. I’m now sat on a desk, with a crap Dell keyboard, that’s had more to eat than I have. You shake it, there’s about 6 bags of crisps falling out. I can”t be arsed to type about that place any more, as every time I mention it, it seems to be getting worse.
Moving on swiftly, I’m going to be adding a new section to the gallery in the very near future. Yes, I’m finally going to be adding a streetlighting section - something which I’ve been promising since I started this site off. I’ve had more time than usual thanks to my work shifts, so I’ve had change to sort through 5Gbs of photos and get the best images, etc. I’m sure you’ll all be gripped.
Anyway. I managed to get “Invincible” by Carola. I did one of my good old drunken postings on this particular song the other night…
It’s another drunken theme music post! God, it’s not as if these occur every time Halley’s Comet appears, or anything.
There’s not been one of these posts for a good few months. Which is great, considering they used to be every week or so. Anyway. I thought I’d btter write about the song I’m lstening to at the minute.
Back in May sometime the Eurovision Song Contest went ahead. One song stood out. The Swedish entry. I loved it, and as I’ve already mentioned before, I mentioned on here that is was fantasic. Alas, the song I loved disappeared compeletely out of my radar. As Soon as the song contest finishes, if you don’t win, your song disappears without trace. Ironically, so have Lordi, considering they won the 2006 contest. Either way, they did, and the whole contest was over, never to be heard of again.
Let’s move forward three months. The start of August coincided with the start of the 2006 European Athletics Chamionship, hosted in Gothenburg. Some know it as Goteburg. But I don’t.
I switched to the BBC1 coverage after finishing a nighshift, and remembered being utterly captivated by 48 seconds of the greatest sporting theme music since…. er, that big long “Great Sporting Experience” post I did a few months ago.
Anywyay, I was seriously hooked by this music. I loved it, and didn’t recognise it. I even posted to the BBC website, hoping that they’d be able to clear up my mystery.
No, was the simple answer to that question. Five days (or at least something close), went by with no response. I assumed it was a specially composed tune.
That is, until the Saturday. I’d have been at work for 12 hours, and had missed most of the championships for that day. Except for the six hours I’d set the video to record. After about one and a half hours, I was lying there, and chortled at Steve Cram, and his commentary during a particularly dull section of the women’s Marathon. They went past a building which hosted the 1985 Eurovision Song Contest. Their “Statistician, Mark Butler” announced, on the subject of Eurovision, that BBC’s theme was Sweden’s entry for this year’s contest… and there was me, remembering, loving it!!!!
I paused the video, rushed upstairs, and indeed, confirmed that it was the same song I loved. Delighted, I instantly consulted ebay, and bid for a version of the single which contained the instrumental verson.
It arrived this morning, just in the nick of time. Literally. Yoy can’t have failed to notice that we have two dogs who love to digest anythihg that falls through our letterbox. No sooner had I placed the dogs in the front room with the door closed, I’d returned upstairs to hear them barking. Yes, the postman had turned up. If I’d have not bothered with the dogs, that CD single would have been a chewed, devastaed mess on the floor. Luckily, it didn’t get chewed, therefore it wasn’t.
Ok, so I never finished it, but you get the general idea. Played it, loved it. Got some beer, got headphones, loved it more, and so on.
