Despite my resurgent interest in the colour purple owing to not being embarrased to admit to being my favourite colour anymore, when I randomly stumbled upon this photo of Strusta Lake in the Vitebsk Province of Belarus taken by zedlik, I just had to use it as a background. What a sight.
The icons for my drives are from the Treasure Isle Wiki, of all places.
In our continuing series of fascinating lyrical anecdotes derived from Ben Sidran’s 1990 album Cool Paradise, today Ben discusses various forms of astronomical phenomena in Desire of Love:
Hot, like the yellow sun;
Uh oh…. FIIIIIIIIRE!
As far as I know Ben, the sun isn’t on fire, its undergoing a sustained fusion reaction. Also while we’re on the subject, discussing yellow hot fire doesn’t sound particulary… cool… does it?
Other tracks:
#01,
#02,
#03,
#04,
#05,
#06,
#08,
#09,
#10,
#11.
People are putting up which movies from the IMDB Top 250 they’ve seen. I’ve compiled mine, with smilies for my personal favourites :)
| 1 | 1994 | The Shawshank Redemption ^_^ |
| 2 | 1972 | The Godfather |
| 3 | 1974 | The Godfather: Part II |
| 5 | 1994 | Pulp Fiction |
| 8 | 2010 | Inception ^_^ |
| 11 | 1980 | Star Wars: Episode V – The Empire Strikes Back |
| 12 | 2003 | The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King |
| 16 | 1977 | Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope |
| 17 | 1942 | Casablanca |
| 19 | 2001 | The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring |
| 23 | 1999 | The Matrix ^_^ (pretend the other two never happened!) |
| 30 | 2002 | The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers |
| 32 | 1994 | Forrest Gump |
| 43 | 1998 | Saving Private Ryan |
| 46 | 2001 | Amelie ^_^ |
| 47 | 2001 | Spirited Away ^_^ |
| 49 | 2008 | WALL·E ^_^ |
| 51 | 2002 | The Pianist |
| 56 | 1971 | A Clockwork Orange |
| 70 | 1985 | Back to the Future ^_^ |
| 74 | 1975 | Monty Python and the Holy Grail ^_^ |
| 79 | 1999 | The Green Mile |
| 89 | 1968 | 2001: A Space Odyssey ^_^ |
| 104 | 2010 | The King's Speech |
| 107 | 1983 | Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi |
| 117 | 1996 | Fargo ^_^ |
| 135 | 1994 | The Lion King ^_^ |
| 143 | 2003 | Kill Bill: Vol. 1 |
| 146 | 1995 | Toy Story |
| 154 | 1996 | Trainspotting |
| 161 | 1962 | The Manchurian Candidate |
| 164 | 2009 | Avatar |
| 165 | 1979 | Life of Brian ^_^ |
| 168 | 2003 | Finding Nemo |
| 171 | 2007 | The Bourne Ultimatum |
| 185 | 2007 | Ratatouille |
| 190 | 2010 | The Social Network |
| 192 | 2009 | Star Trek ^_^ |
| 193 | 1997 | Good Will Hunting |
| 200 | 2004 | The Incredibles |
| 219 | 2003 | Big Fish |
| 227 | 2004 | Kill Bill: Vol. 2 |
| 241 | 1944 | Arsenic and Old Lace ^_^ |
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In our continuing series of fascinating lyrical anecdotes derived from Ben Sidran’s 1990 album Cool Paradise, today Ben laments his experience with banks and other such financial institutions in the tune Language of The Blues:
You can almost hear them say…
"Ask… and we shall refuse"…
In the language of the blues
At least, that’s what I think he’s talking about. Makes sense.
Other tracks:
#01,
#02,
#03,
#04,
#05,
#07,
#08,
#09,
#10,
#11.
Had this persistant dialogue box on my ThinkPad for over an hour. Didn't have the heart to close it ;)
