Keane "The Sun Aint Gonna Shine Anymore"

I love it so much. Why isn't it on itunes? Keane is one of my all time favorite bands and this song is so great and in my favorite movie, Truly Madly Deeply.

Keane has done a lot of awesome covers, but you can't get them anywhere, but if you're a Keane fan, you can find them on youtube - like "Under Pressure", "With or Without You". Fun.

Love it.

(Thanks to Seth for the story and for asking for a "shout")

London cash machines offer Cockney slang option(AFP) – 6 hours ago

LONDON — Would you Adam and Eve it? Cash machines in east London are offering customers the option of using the local Cockney rhyming slang to get their hands on their sausage, so to speak.

Five automated teller machines (ATMs) in the East End are going Cockney for three months from Monday.

While cash machines with several language options are commonplace in some countries, the chance to use rhyming slang could leave those unfamiliar with the east London lingo in a right load of Barney Rubble.

Anyone opting for Cockney rhyming slang will be asked to enter their Huckleberry Finn (PIN) before choosing how much sausage and mash (cash) they want.

Those wanting to withdraw 10 pounds will have to ask for a speckled hen, while the machine may inform users that it is contacting their rattle and tank, rather than bank.

"We wanted to introduce something fun and of local interest to our London machines," said Ron Delnevo, managing director of operators Bank Machine.

"Whilst we expect some residents will visit the machine to just have a butcher's (hook, look), most will be genuinely pleased as this is the first time a financial services provider will have recognised the Cockney language in such a manner."

The ATMs displaying prompts in Cockney are all free to use, though most of the group's cash machines charge a fee.

Better-known Cockney rhyming slang includes dog and bone (phone), apples and pears (stairs), whistle and flute (suit), Adam and Eve (believe), Barnet Fair (hair), trouble and strife (wife), loaf of bread (head) and boat race (face).

Whitby Wimpy Big Mac

Seymore and Pepe

My sister Elizabeth and I laughed so hard when we first saw this. I still love it.

Moon

This movie is fascinating. I loved it so much. Sam Rockwell is ridiculously amazing.

Momma I'm Comin' Home

I just had a really nice mini trip home to Salt Lake City.

Friday morning I hopped on an early jet blue flight to the SLC and a couple hours later I walked in to my childhood home and surprised my dad for his 80th birthday weekend. He had no idea I was coming - it was fantastic to surprise him that way, he was super happy.

My mom, dad and I then headed to the good ol' V.I.(that's Village Inn to you) for brunch. That place is chalk full of memories - I used to go there when my friends and I would sluff assemblies in High School and then in college after finishing up a performance late at night.

Friday night I headed out to Sandy to hang out with the Nighs - my sister, brother-in-law and nephew. I joined them for dinner (along with the rest of the Nigh clan) and then we headed back to their house for the night. In this picture he took the paper napkin ring, stuck it to his chin and stroked it like a goatee.



Here's Dylan with his birthday gift from Aunt Heidi and Uncle Whit, Star Wars Legos:


It was great to just chill with them at their place again. I love hanging out with the Nighs, I really miss doing that on a regular basis. (please note I don't have pictures of Jerad, as I know he hates taking them)



Saturday we headed back up to the Kleins for my dad's birthday party. My mom had slaved to make a German schmorgesborg - and it tasted great. Some friends and neighbors came by and it was a really nice afternoon. I hooked up our old Atari 2600 and played some of our many awesome Atari games. It's the best.



That night Alex and I went to MacBeth at SLS/Babcock. The two of us used to always like going to whatever plays/concerts together that we could - something we both miss now living apart.

I spent another night at the Nigh's, slept in complete comfort in their chilly basement ... oh my gosh, this is the boringest post ever, but I wanted to document it for myself. Anyway, blah, blah, spent another day with Nighs/Kleins. Alex and I looked through a Barbie book together and remembered all our old Barbies and Kens.

Sunday evening I visited my old friend/teacher, Carter. Always amusing to hang out with him, he's still the coolest.

Monday morning I got to catch up with one of my dearest friends, Cassie Stokes Wylie (Classy Strokes Wildly) which was also really great - I miss her.

Then my parents and I went to lunch for the real birthday day and then after one last slice of amazing cheesecake at home, I was off to the airport again.

Now I'm back in the Burbank and back to a mountain of catch up work at work.

I love love love hanging out with my nephew, Dylan. He is hilarious - to use Dylan's phrase, he's a "little whippersnapper". He had a plethura of funny things he said and did, but one line that made me laugh was when I came into the room he was in singing the end of "Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head", the line that says, "because I'm free, nothins worryin me" and Dylan said, "I don't know what song that is, but it's not freeing me". He's still sweet and adorable, but also sassy and funny. Love him.




I loved sitting in the Nigh living room listening to Jerad's stories again.

I loved hearing Alex's laugh again, reminiscing, and just generally being around her - she is and always will be one of my best friends - I would hang out with her every day, if I could.



I enjoyed going back in time to stay in my old house again: no cable, no computer, no A/C, but plenty of German sandwiches, Atari games (I still kick butt at TAZ), Viewmasters, and photo albums.

I loved seeing a couple dear old friends. I'm sad I didn't see Darci and her new baby and Liz - just was too quick a weekend.

I loved seeing my parents, I loved surprising my dad, I loved hearing my mom laugh. It was tough seeing my parents both in different states of hobbling, but I'm excited my dad is going to get a new hip this month and hopefully be pain free again. Other than his hip, he is in such amazing shape. He's still as sharp as a tac, as funny and punny as ever. It is crazy to think that he is 80, but I'm so grateful he is doing so well.





I missed Elizabeth, would have been nice to spend time with her too, hopefully, next time.

I love my family and I'm glad I had some one on one time with them. See ya later, SLC.

We're Twins

I don't know, but this made me laugh. I was looking through old paperdolls and coloring books online and saw this one. It just tickled me:

Poetry Friday

Sonnet XVII

I don't love you as if you were the salt-rose, topaz
or arrow of carnations that propagate fire:
I love you as certain dark things are loved,
secretly, between the shadow and the soul.

I love you as the plant that doesn't bloom and carries
hidden within itself the light of those flowers,
and thanks to your love, darkly in my body
lives the dense fragrance that rises from the earth.

I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where,
I love you simply, without problems or pride:
I love you in this way because I don't know any other way of loving

but this, in which there is no I or you,
so intimate that your hand upon my chest is my hand,
so intimate that when I fall asleep it is your eyes that close.

-Pablo Neruda


Now, that's a love poem. I love Neruda.

I mean, come on, that is adorable

Nine lives

I have a strange affinity for sports bloopers and animal survival stories. Here are a few animal stories from an msn article today.

Trip Down Gamery Lane

Yeah - I said Gamery Lane - didn't have time to come up with an awesome pun, sorry. This might be a crazy boring post to most, but it always blows my mind to see pictures of the things from my childhood - images that are so familiar, yet so distant.

We had a nook in the wall of the basement, which served as our play room, growing up. In this nook all the board games were kept. I remember staring at those shelves trying to decide which game to play; we had the basics: Monopoly (takes too long), Clue (need more people to play). Then we had the weird ones we never really played like the Uncle Wiggily game



or the Secret of Nimh game that I received as a gift, although I still have never seen that movie.

Once in a while we'd get out Waterworks - but I don't know if I ever quite got it (my drama teacher would later give me the nickname "Waterworks" in high school). I mean who came up with the idea to have a game about repairing leaky water pipes with miniature wrenches?


When I was by myself I would sometimes play Park and Shop - yeah all by myself, I'd play as two people.



When we felt ambitious we'd play Mystery Mansion - an awesome game where you put rooms of a mansion together and find hidden treasure.



Possibly Careers, although that could get long too.



My favorite games when I was a young kid were Husker Du and Candyland. I remember my Dad would play Candyland with me on his bed while he watched the evening news.

To this day one of my favorite games is Battleship. I loved the red and blue boxes, with the blue glassy screens.

Also on the game shelf sat Spirograph, where you could create a multitude of cool patterns.

One of the best things on the shelf were the Fashion Plates, belonging to my oldest sister. You picked a face, a torso, legs, and shoes. Then you could also pick from different patterns to give the clothes texture and finally you could color them. They were great, the girls were pretty. Perfect girl toy.





I was just going to have board game reflections today, but then I started thinking about the Atari games we played. One of the most exciting Christmas gifts we ever got was the Atari 2600. We all wanted it so much and we actually got it! We had/have a ton of games. I wish I could go home and play it tonight (but alas it's in Utah at my parents').

We had a lot of weird games that I never quite figured out like Riddle of the Sphinx




Sort of lame ones like Wabbit




But there were so many awesome games. Maybe my favorite is Maze Craze - it's simple, but so fun to race to that finish line and there were a billion different levels/variations.



There was Space Invaders - obviously




Jungle Hunt - sort of repetitive




Montezuma's Revenge - always got to a point where I couldn't figure out what else to do,




Asteroids




Vanguard




Berzerk




Sea Hunt




Enduro




Atlantis




Combat always made us laugh pretty hard - it was so much fun to continually blast people into oblivion - tanks or planes, either way.




Oh, man this next one was so weird - Sorcerer. The music from this game will be emblazened in my head for all time, I think. If you wanna hear it go here. Hearing that makes me laugh. That site is pretty fun - and you can hear and play a lot of the games, fyi. The sounds are seriously making me laugh like crazy.




I keep posting this and then finding more Atari games on this site that I totally forgot about and need to add, like Shark Attack, it was scary:




I strangely got really into the game Taz. You were the Tasmanian Devil and you had to not eat dynamite, but eat food - many different levels of different foods - I would spend a lot of time with that game - I would get so very far, until it sped up so very very fast.





Playstation, Nintendo, Xbox, Wii - none of them will ever take the place in my heart of the Atari 2600.

Good times.

What are some of your favorite gaming memories?