What are the weirdest song titles in your playlist or music collection?
Submitted by Charline.
I'm going to go out on a limb here and say Reading Time With Pickle. I mean, there are many, many slightly odd songs in my music collection, but an ode to the joys of reading bedtime stories with a pickle was always going to take some beating.
Needless to say it is a sweeping biopic of a song about one girls love for her pickle, it has it all, joy, sadness, anticipation and despair. Alternatively, it's an entirely weird song, by an artist whose sanity you have to sometimes question, but you got to love her imagination...Now Feeding time with TV
Then sleeping time, not sleepy
So reading time with pickle
But were the bed side lamp had been
Is now emanating soft soft green
Who's going to be in the Final Four?
As Vox is an international website, and not just American, I can only assume that this question refers to the final four that is of most international significance over the coming month. I'm sure no American would be naive enough to assume the rest of the world gave one jot about the NCAA Final Four, and the question can only refer to the Cricket world cup, which is watched and listened to daily by more people than even know what the NCAA is.
I'd say it's gonna be Australia, South Africa, Sri Lanka and New Zealand. It could well be Murali's year, probably his last world cup, they've got good depth bowling so if their bowling attack performs well they'll not need the batsmen to raise any totals that are too big.
That said, if I were to put a punt on an outsider, Bangladesh have a young team that are capable of causing an upset or two in the super eights and progressing to the semi's. They may have been beaten by Sri Lanka, but put in a fantastic performance against India, and Tamim Iqbal has the potential to be a truly great batsmen, anyone who waltzes down the crease to paste the Indian attack round the boundaries with such confidence has to be a danger.
(as for the NCAA - who cares, Notre Dame are out)
Video: Show us a TV series you own or watched on DVD.
Ok, so in the want of something to put on my vox, I decided to do a brief run down of the TMF hitlist for today, mainly because it's on my tele, the remote is broken and I can't be bothered to turn it off. I figure my suffering should not be in vain...
10 - Arctic Monkeys - Brianstorm
Booty dancers, Really? You're from Sheffield chaps, not the Bronx. Oh, and the song sounds exactly the same as all your other songs, kinda hoped for some musical progression there, you know?
9 - Forgettable Artist - Acceptable in the 80's
Was it? Was it really? So were huge puffball skirts, shoulder pads, culture club and Emilio Estevez. Now I know why all humanity wishes to forget the 80's. (Sorry, Luda, Dallas is of course the exception. Ahem)
8 - Pink - Leave Me Alone
Make a deal, Pink my dear, you leave us alone. Knew you'd understand.
7 - Natasha Bedignfield - I wanna Have your Babies
Run, run fast, run far. If you happen to have a penis, run, run, run. I see what you're trying here 'Tasha and it's not working, it's not making people laugh, it's making them cringe and think you probably need to find a man soon.
6 - Justin Timberlake - Is This How We Say Goodbye
He kills Scarlett Johansson and causes the wanton destruction of a classic car. What disturbs me most is that at some point he sat down and thought "why not make a video where I get Scarlett in a vintage car and then deystroy them both." Methinks someone needs their head checked. Captain Haddock would have him keel-hauled!
5 - Avril Lavigne - I want to be your Girlfriend
Avril, sweetie, why did you have to go make things so complicated, see you're acting like somebody else gets me frustrated. Actually, frustrated is probably too strong a word, I mean disinterested and bored.
4 - My Chemical Romance - I don't love you
Apparently the Emo boy doesn't love us like he did yesterday. Luckily enough, we never loved him anyway. I can't comment on the video, as it was too depressing to watch, emo kids take note: society hates you.
3 - Christina Aguilera - Candyman.
3 Christina's and a shamelessly retro vibe? This one, somewhat shamefully, gets the big thumbs up, although the captain thinks the navy would have been a better theme than the air force. G'wan, Tina, tug my beard!
2 - The Two Chubby Comedians & The Proclaimers - Roll 500 Miles
Apparently 500 miles is not far enough, I can still hear you. I always liked the original, now I know that it is going to be tortured mercilessly on the airwaves and sang by out of tune chavs constantly for the next two months, I think I may emigrate.
1 - Beyonce & Shakira - Beautiful Liar
Surprising better on paper than it turned out. Perhaps they need to borrow the booty dancers once the primates from number ten have finished with them.
Book: Show us a book you started reading but never finished.
I never thought I had much in common with George Clooney beyond our handsome looks, wit, charm and affection for old movies, but as luck would have it I did; Niether he nor I got through The Perfect Storm. Yes, I know, it's only about 200 pages long, it's the literary equivalent of a pixar short when stood next to a lot of other books, but I never got through it. I don't know why I even started it, I'd seen the film, it was obvious it wasn't going to all turn out roses, yet still I started out. They introduced the families and the friends, oh, very nice touch, lets really make it sink in how tragic it was, tantalising us with the prospect that all of their lives may improve if they just catch another haul, before plunging them into the icy depths. My reading of the book largely paralleled their final voyage, boring, tiresome and entirely depressing, I gave up and imagined that they survived...
