The Irish Times (Free subscription) | 21/11/2008
TYPECAST AS a gauche virgin since his breakthrough in , here Jason Biggs plays Dustin, for whom sex is a solitary occupation he undertakes while watching his extensive porn library. He's hopelessly smitten with co-worker Alexis (Kate Hudson), but she just wants to be friends.
stagno per anitre (the duckpond) (Free subscription) | 18/11/2008
This song actually came up in discussion yesterday. Just now, I was looking for Mabel (because, y'know, she's the bomb), but I came across this instead. 99 luft balons -- nena* 99 red balloons -- nena 99 red balloons -- goldfinger * I realized earlier that without some kind of marker for what the video is supposed to be, I won't have a clue if these videos evenutally disappear. I'm tired...you must...
Entertainment News - MovieWeb.com (Free subscription) | 10/11/2008
We find out when we can expect to see new trailers and what's up with the ending of the film.
Garden of Words (Free subscription) | 07/11/2008
I couldn't bring myself to post this latest video of Thea going to town with her new balloon without including both the German language version of "99 Luftballons" by Nena and the punk rock version by my favorite band 7...
The Guardian Music blog (Free subscription) | 12/09/2008
Last week, you suggested songs about historical events. This week, the past comes back to haunt us again, as we're after songs that explore an almost Sicilian commitment to vendetta
Rock and Roll Daily (Free subscription) | 03/06/2008
It’s a cold, rainy Saturday in New Jersey, and hundreds of hoodie-clad teenyboppers are scrunched shoulder to shoulder in the Meadlowlands parking lot, screaming for Tokio Hotel. “Bill, I want to comb your hair!” shrieks a teen girl in the front row as the band — fronted by glammed-out singer Bill Kaulitz, 18, and his [...]
impudent strumpet (Free subscription) | 01/06/2008
Open up iTunes, if you have it (if not, improvise), and answer the following questions: How many total songs? 3207 songs, 41.2 days (I think the timing is wrong), 14.97 gigs Sort by song title - first and last Abandoned Masquerade - Diana Krall 99 Luftballons - Nena Sort by time - shortest and longest Shortest: Silence by Klaatu (really just the sound of a mouse getting caught in a mousetrap): 4 seconds...
Popdose (Free subscription) | 20/05/2008
German New Wave combo Nena secured their place in rock history with the one-hit wonderdom of “99 Luftballons” in 1984, but I’ve always been a bit of a sucker for the equally catchy follow-up, “Just A Dream” (download) (an English-language remake of a German hit titled “Nur Geträumt”). With its Blondie ambitions and playground [...]
Law and Motherhood (Free subscription) | 07/05/2008
99 dreams I have had In every one a red balloon It's all over and I'm standin' pretty In this dust that was a city If I could find a souvenir Just to prove the world was here And here is a red balloon I think of you and let it go -- 99 Red Balloons Nena Whenever I hear this song I think back to my youth, and get a sense of freedom and joy, an overwhelming desire to spin. That desire popped, much like...
Up in Alaska (Free subscription) | 20/04/2008
Date: April 18 and 19 Mileage: 48 and 13.7 April mileage: 437.6 Temperature: 34 and 29 So instead of typing about my weekend, I thought I'd make another video blog. This one also didn't turn out the way I imagined it. I strapped my "helmet cam" way too high, so all of the cycling shots are basically blue sky and treetops. But I sprinkled some clips in because they help break up the blathering (don't...
Curly's Corner Shop, the blog! (Free subscription) | 13/04/2008
Spotted at Harton Nook yesterday You can tell when Arsenal are playing away! South Shields MP and Foreign Secretary David Miliband was spotted at Harton Nook yesterday handing out 99 red balloons to locals, no doubt as part of the election campaign. I hope there were no over inflated Labour claims on the balloons, or little “gunner” [...]
Leesa's Stories (Free subscription) | 21/03/2008
Connections I was watching a YouTube video the other day, and although I rarely click their suggested videos, there was one by David Sedaris that looked interesting. Well, that led to one by Amy Sedaris, and then I wanted to see if the two were married, so I went on Google with Amy's name, and came up with an IMDB page for Amy, and the first movie on her list, Puberty: The Movie , where she plays the...
Little Miss Attila (Free subscription) | 20/03/2008
that we were actually at war with our good friends the Germans in the mid-20th Century. Anyone know for sure? But if that were the case, we couldn't be allies with them now. Very confusing....
Hammered (Free subscription) | 03/03/2008
The Mail have an interesting story today entitled What happened in the world the year Teddy Sheringham scored his first professional goal for Millwall? In football Liverpool won the league, Southampton were runners-up and Chelsea and Newcastle were in Division Two. Liverpool also won the European Cup by beating Roma on penalties in Rome (Bruce Grobbelaar's famous "wobbly knees" display). West
Her Bad Mother (Free subscription) | 29/02/2008
I didn't realize, when Nena's '99 Red Balloons' first hit the radio, that it was about a nuclear accident. I thought that it was just about balloons. I was pretty young. But it wasn't long before the subject was something that my friends and I discussed at length, titillated and alarmed (it's about bombs? BOMBS!), as we huddled around the tetherball pole in the schoolyard (OMG THAT COULD HAPPEN,
