Had dinner with some friends last night, who gave me a wicked early birthday prezzie:
This is the new workforce bag for the 2010 Games. It's optional (you want, you buy), and it compliments the uniforms nicely. One of it's very kewl features is how it's repurposed for the Paralympic Games: just unzip and stow the Olympic emblem in the pocket!
Being the first kid on the block with something is always a thrill; when it's Olympic in nature, you can fairly cut glass with my teets I'm so excited!
So the escnation MB's all preparing for a weekend in Dublin, and obviously I, as an affiliate site, wanted to mark the event in some way. Tricky to find the right one though - Einmal Wasser, Einmal Wein really only works if it's Zweimal Wein and ideally Hunderttausendmal Wein. Tel Aviv Shota Lecha'im is in the right ballpark, but again it's got too much Lecha'im and not nearly enough Shota. "What if Milly hadn't got to bring the Mexicans?" is a great alternative universe question, but wouldn't have gone down well.
So where else could I go for the ideal blend of drunkenness, inappropriate touching, and that unmistakable Dublin native ambience?
At work, we have one of those "corporate radio station" things that spends most of its time playing inoffensive music and every now and then has people hymning the praises of the company. Usually nothing to notice, but every now and then it plays something ESC-related, which is almost always "My Number One". Recently, though, I've been noticing a cover of "Fly on the Wings of Love" turning up. I'm trying to find a copy of it somewhere just to listen to and work out if it's any good, but the artist names are never announced, so I'm hoping someone here knows who performed it.
It's a techno-sounding track, sung by a woman and I'm almost certain her vocals have been digitally altered to make them higher-pitched and probably faster as well. Beyond that, I can't be more specific.
Yeurgh. I spent half of Saturday night putting all the clocks back and wondering what possessed me to move them in the first place. And then I caught a glimpse of the outside window at 16:50 GMT yesterday and went "Yeurgh" again at the gathering darkness. I don't like this time of year. It makes me think of Albanian finals and Bulgarian quarter-finals and rumours of Despina Vandi and those dreaming days when the BBC's Big Idea might still be something more appealing than a Jemini reunion.
I don't want wind and rain and leaves and early dusks. I want sun, and sand. So if you're like me and you've been working all year and you're also more than ready for some sun and some sand then... well, let's... Get Ready For The Sunsand with Alana Dante. *points in the general direction of Alana Dante. The crowd applauds weakly*.
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