At last, and finally

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I have been completely without the internet for a week. Although work gives me access to work email, I have no net access there, and the net at home has been fucked since last Saturday when I managed to stay on long enough to post about my darling bass which is fabulous.

Anyway, I've not done much since I last posted besides work. I was seriously restricted on bass duties because I depend on the net for tablature, although I can tell you that I've mastered (although not perfected) 'Dancing In The Moonlight (It's Caught Me In Its Spotlight)' by Thin Lizzy and also a personal favourite, Peter Gunn by Duane Eddy. My dad is mucho impressed with the latter. My mammy does not know that I've bought said bass, and I'm thinking it should stay that way- she might say "It's your money" or she might go loopy. Never can tell with Mama.

Oh, and I've been playing the Sims 2 quite a bit. My mum and dad returned from Rome on Tuesday with the news the Pope had flu a few hours before it was widely known here in Britain. And they were at that appearance he gave on Sunday and are not surprised- leaving a frail 84 year old man on a balcony for 20mins with a bad wind chill factor in the weather and the flu going round is not what I'd term sensible.

Er.... have been working some more on writing, but it's all original stuff I don't think anyone here would be interested it. I've more or less put Daoimear De Dan: Inne agus Inniu on hold, although after a conversation with Eb a while back, I did open it back up again for a bit. Is anyone genuinely interested in reading about any of the following:

1. Two girls in the 70s and the rock and roll band they loved

2. A young princess thrown into queenship and war by the laws of Sod and Murphy

3. An English-Irish woman in the 1960s who goes to teach in a small town in West Ireland

4. Harry, Hermione, Ron and the people of Daoimear de Dan some 16 years after that particular story.

Do let me know, there's good kids!

And now, in the spirit of information and the securing of loose ends:

1. "Are there any of the girls who'd like a little more Irish in them?" This, as ladycadey correctly surmised, is Philip Lynott. It's from the introduction to 'Emerald' on the greatest live rock album ever made (Not even just my opinion!), Live and Dangerous.

2. "I saw myself in the mirror in profile for the first time." This is from 'Real Good Looking Boy' by The Who. This is the song that proved to me conclusively that growing old, getting busted for child porn, losing yet another member of the band and the rest has not really detracted from Pete n Rog's greatness.

3. "Now I'm grown up and playing in a band."This is 'Come Dancing' by The Kinks, as eibbil_libbie guessed. Good song, decent band, although a little Mod for me.

4. "Last call for drinks, I'll have another stout." 'I Hope That I Don't Fall In Love With You' by mad old Tom Waits.

5. "Sometimes when you're feeling like a poor relation/Call on me and I'll give you more than conversation." If anyone gets this without looking it up, you have my undying love and respect. So, nobody guessed, hmm? I'm not surprised. It belongs to 'I Could Be So Good For You', the theme song to 80s drama series Minder. It starred George Cole as well as Dennis Waterman, who sings the song. It's the greatest theme song ever.

6. "He always runs while others walk." 'Thunderball' by Tom Jones. Only James Bond could get me to listen to the orange Welshman.

7. "Summer, Buddy Holly, the working folly, Good Golly Miss Molly and boats." Ironically, this song made an appearance on Never Mind the Buzzcocks this week. It is 'Reasons to be Cheerful, Part III' by Ian Dury, God rest his poetic soul, and The Blockheads.

8. "As I walked down through Chatham Street, a fair maid I did meet." This is 'New York Girls', which is as far as I know, a pretty old folk song from ye olden days. You can hear it during Gangs of New York at Satan's Circus, but this particular version is Steeleye Span with a cameo from Peter Sellers.

9. "Well lookee there/Here she comes/Here comes that girl again/Wanted to date her since I don't know when." 'Somethin' Else' by Eddie Cochran, one of the first rock n rollers, and one of the first of the glorious dead. He died in a car crash that also involved Gene Vincent. Gene survived but the crash and the death of his friend sent him spiralling into alcoholism. Pretty Eddie makes an appearance in The Girl Can't Help It, but he's always been better known here in Britain. He also did 'Twenty Flight Rock' and 'Summertime Blues'.

10. "And you may ask yourself, how did I get here?" This was got by anneu53714, zorb  and eibbil_libbie  and is of course, 'Once In A Lifetime' by Talking Heads. They're not hugely my bag, but I do like this song.

11. "Poor old Grandad, I laughed at all his words." Ah, tis 'Ooh La La' by The Faces. I love the Small Faces but can't stand some of the Faces stuff because Steve Marriott's place was taken by that blond twat Rod Stewart. However, this song is beautiful and is sung instead by Ronnie Wood.

12. "To rise in the world he carried a hod." Tis 'Finnegan's Wake' by The Dubliners.

13. "You may see a stranger, across a crowded room." Some Enchanted Evening indeed, as sung by Dean Martin. gryffindor_phan and zorb got it right

14. "She has robes and she has monkeys." There is a man called Jim who owns a chunk of my heart, and it's a lot to do with this particular song. Only Jimmy Morrison could make a jaunty little love song also dark and strange. gryffindor_phan has my admiration for guessing it :D

15. "Squeeze my lemon, till the juice runs down my leg." Clue: Probably not the first song you think of. Ah, Cadeykins was close but did not get the *cough* banana. Had you said 'Travelling Riverside Blues', you would've earned a shiny Percy. :D

16. "Attack! Attack! Attack! That's what we lack." 'Yellow Pearl' by Philip Lynott, with Ultravox & Band Aid's Midge Ure. There are a couple of versions of this particular song, both great slices of early 80s electro-pop and one of them was the Top of the Pops theme for awhile in the 80s.

17. "I see a clinic full of cynics." OK, this may be construed as 'obscure'. It's 'The Lunatics Have Taken Over The Asylum' by the Fun Boy Three, who featured the beautiful stony-faced Terry Hall from The Specials, the greatest ska revivalists ever.

18. "And I'll be at your side forever more." Two words: Jackie. Wilson. Oh, three more: 'Higher and Higher'

19. "Tyre tracks all across your back." OK friendslist, am shocked nobody got 'Crosstown Traffic' by Jimi Hendrix. Stop listening to your Stevie Ray Vaughn and listen to a real axe-man

20. "You had plenty money, 1942." Miss Julie London, 'Why Don't You Do Right?'. Not the Jessica Rabbit version.