I’ve just found an old advert for Atari, thanks to the wonderfulness of Youtube…
Note the jingle at the end… is this, or is this not part of the Family Guy theme tune? We, as a readership of… four… MUST BE TOLD.
Oh, the video?
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=emRN8XiJMQw (Oops, would have helped if I linkified it!)
And, if you’re not sure what the Family Guy theme tune sounds like, watch BBC3 for 30 seconds.
The music used in the current Ford Fiesta advert, shot in Berlin (the one with the different sized monitors bouncing along the street) is “Transient” by Pluxus. I’m listening to the full length version via Youtube.
I love the internet. I also love advertising execs with a decent taste in music.
I’m sure by the time that anyone reads this, the results will be in, and it’ll be all over for another X years. Is it 4 years? Or is it 8 years? You know, I guess this shows how much I know about US politics. Therefore it would be unfair for me to comment on what is happening on the voting itself, but instead flick through the telly channels and see exactly what is happening.
Unfortunately, it appears that most of the “live” channels, such as BBC and ITV are dedicating their airtime to it. We also get the six billion news channels that are beamed around the world.
So, this is the state of play, at 1:30AM… BBC1 looks boring. BBC2 is showing a repeat of “Britain In the Red”. ITV is showing coverage. It keeps breaking down and suffering from technical glitches. C4 is showing a recorded poker match, and C5 is showing basketball.
I think I’ll start off with ITV…
1:32 (ITV) “ARKANSAS TOO EARLY TO CALL LEANING MCCAIN”…. presumably they didnt have enough space on the caption machine to make that into a workable sentence…
1:33 (ITV) Alastair Stewart is presenting. He seems to be getting more and more pissed off with the director every time I see him.
1:35 ITV’s getting boring. Going to watch BBC1. By the way, these times I’m quoting are from the only clock I can see, on the video.
1:37 BBC claim that OBAMA is projected to win Pennsylvania.
1:38 See, I’m only staying awake because I’m hungry. I’ve just taken my tablet and I have to wait and hour before I can eat. I have some chicken on top of the microwave. Might have some of that. Oh, the BBC are still whittering on about something. David Dimbelby presents. And I have a feeling I’ve spelt his name wrong.
1:41 I need to find the satellite remote… Oh, Pennsylvania’s confirmed.
1:42 ITV… Guy currently getting interviewed has a VERY FLAPPY NECK.
1:43: Well, I’ve just switched over to channel 5. I have no idea if this basketball is live or not. BOS v HOU if you care. It’s almost as exciting as OBA v MCC. Maybe. Houton have terrific deee-fense, apparently. Oh, back to the news. This is bollocks.
1:46 Flappy neck guy is still on ITV. It’s almost hypnotic.
1:47 John Culshaw’s on ITV. He’s doing a Gordon Brown impression. And now an Obama impression. I really, really need to find that satellite remote.
1:53 BBC - Jeremy Vine has some type of snazzy green screen effect. It’s touch screen too. I was waiting for it to go horribly wrong. It almost did.
1:58 - Oooh, two minutes until 15 polls close. I can hardly keep my excitement in.
1.59 - 10… 9… 8… 7… 6… 5… 4… 2… 3… oh, wait.
2:06 - Right, going upstairs to do something… back in a bit
3:26 - Predictably, I got bored of the idea, and bored of the coverage. I’ve had my grub,now I’m going to bed.
Oh joy, it’s that time of year again… The Big rother launch is about to kick off, and I’m sat in front of my laptop, ready to talk about the biggest load of bollocks that’s ever been shown on the UK airwaves. Daddykins is here eating scones, wondering why I’m watching it. So am I…
Well, this turned out to be a bit of a redundant post, as I never actually got round to typing about it during the course of the programme. Therefore, there will be no further information about this show posted on these pages. I think the blind one will win it, however.
Tomorrow, I return to Employment Place, after three days on the sick, as last week I came down with some dreadful flu thing. Once again. Unfrotunately, this time, instead of it just affecting my nose and throat, this time it decided to take my left ear and chest with it. I’m still not right. My ear still feels like there’s a bowling ball stuck in it, and my throat is once again making it difficult to swallow.
Oh, the joys of being poorly.
The time off, however, has allowed me to get some of the things I meant to do ages ago out of the way. Firstly, I upgraded Beastbits, my main machine. You may remember on 31st March, I tried to install Windows XP onto a SATA drive, with absolutely no success at all.
Yesterday, I tried a different approach, which I didn’t think would work. I backed up my installation of Windows XP onto 2 bootable DVDs with the help of Nero BackItUp (or whatever it’s called). I then put in the new hard drive, and restored the image back to the hard drive.
It only bloody worked.
Not only did this bypass the rigmarole of having to restore everything, it means that I know this method actually works. Unfortunately, the whole process seemed to take forever. Sooo, now I have XP installed on a SATA drive. Wooty.
On the subject of upgrades, the amount of free space I have on mercuryvapour.co.uk has increased too! It WAS 800Mb, it’s now 2Gb. Unfortunately, as of yet, there has not been any bandwidth increase, so basically they’ve gave me a larger bucket, but the same amount of water to keep in it…
Yeah, that analogy works.
So, onto the theme music bit. None of you will remember a show that aired on the Disney channel (and at come point Channel 5) named “Okavango”. It was one of those awful Sunday afternoon things, about a family who moved from the city to… er, “Okavango” to look after all the wildlife. Or something. I didn’t really watch it. It did have one good thing about it. The theme music. I loved it.
Eventually, the show fizzled off the airwaves, and was never seen again. No DVD release, no repeat, nothing.
A few years ago, I tried to locate the theme music, with absolutely no success. in fact, I was amazed by the amount of information I DIDN’T find.
Following on from a thread about “best theme music“, on Glen’s forum, I suddenly had a recollection of Okavango, and how much I liked the theme tune.
I tried to find the video on Youtube, with no luck. I had to resort to a google search which turned up this low quality video.
I didn’t expect anyone to have heard of the show, and indeed, they didn’t. Glen said…
“Never heard of it, but I recognised the bird off of Alien Nation. Do I win a prize?”
To, which, I replied, jokingly…
“Only if you can find a better copy of that theme music.”
At this point, if I had a sound effect for a jaw dropping, I’d be playing it right now. I do have this picture, however.
He titled the email “I rock”, and he certainly does rock. Not stopping there, however, I badger him for some further information, and his response….
“It’s Invent Yourself by Julian Laxton”
In the posting was the link where he got the preview from, and also a link to where it can be purchased. Turns out the full track is just under 6 minutes long. Awesome!
So, I purchased it. The site was located in South Africa, which means the cost of getting the track was 8.74 Rand. And that works out at roughly 60p. Bonus!
I shall be back at work in 7 hours time. Apparently there’s a new phone system. This WILL be fun.
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