Jack Jack

When I first heard this song on the radio I couldn't get it out of my head. But, stupidly, I was too busy repeating it over and over in my head to bother listening for the artist and the name of the song. So it drove me nuts for ages trying to track down the song and album. When I heard it again, it distracted me enough to miss the name of the song, but not the artist. It was the late (well not at the time), great Elliott Smith. So I high tailed it down to the local music store to get the album. The only album of ES they had was his recently released Figure 8. It turns out that the song I had stuck in my head wasn't on the album. But I wasn't disappointed as Figure 8 is a brilliant album and remains one of my favourite. I later tracked down the name of the elusive song, Waltz #2. Enjoy. Jack Jack 1.6 And for good measure here's a song from Figure 8. Jack Jack 1.7 Please excuse the long post but I had to get this off my chest. It frustrates the hell out of me that there's so much good music out there and never enough free space on my MP3 player to put it. I guess a decent sized ipod classic might help the cause, but itunes gets my goat and apple is turning out to be just as big of a bully and megalomaniac as microsoft (In my opinion). But as they say in the movies "Necessity is the mother of invention"

Nice one. I've watched a couple of episodes and I don't mind it at all. It reminds me a little of Scrubs, quirky, feelgood comedy. Last Sunday's "Sunday Best" was very interesting. Followed a young Indian boy who had run 48 marathons by the time he was 4. Yes that's right I said 48 (fourty eight) marathons by the age of 4 (four). On ABC IView for anyone who missed it.

Here's an interesting article from the New York Times. Written back when the Japan disaster was in full swing. Lessons From Chernobyl for Japan "The death of a nuclear reactor has a beginning; the world is watching this unfold now on the coast of Japan. But it doesn’t have an end. While some radioactive elements in nuclear fuel decay quickly, cesium’s half-life is 30 years and strontium’s is 29 years. Scientists estimate that it takes 10 to 13 half-lives before life and economic activity can return to an area. That means that the contaminated area — designated by Ukraine’s Parliament as 15,000 square miles, around the size of Switzerland — will be affected for more than 300 years."

Did we play well or are NZ crap? I don't know where NZ would be without Vettori, has carried them many a time. And surely we need to be a bit more patient with Hughes. These kids are our future and they need the experience to develop further. Anyway, yes, it's nice to see good young Victorian in the team. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7dq_QHl76DM&feature=related

Those guys are awesome. I'll have to get my hands on more of their stuff. I thought the Aussie tank top in the clip was a nice touch for a Canadian band!

I think I've got too much time on my hands. Apologies if it's been posted elsewhere. Here's a few of our notable picks of the Rookie Draft. 2010 14 Daniel Nicholson 31 Michael Evans 48 Kelvin Lawrence 2008 1 Jordie McKenzie 2007 19 Austin Wonaeamirri 35 Jake Spencer 49 Shane Valenti 2004 26 Matthew Warnock 2003 3 Aaron Davey 2002 56 Nathan Carroll 2001 6 Mark Jamar 2000 31 Darren Jolly 1998 12 Troy Broadbridge 1997 49 Peter Walsh 18 Daniel Ward If you consider the hole it would make in our team if we didn't have the Russian, let alone Flash and Jordie, shows you how important the Rookie draft has been for us. Reason to excited about the draft.

He's shown some real character hasn't he. Didn't he win some sort of clubman award? And from memory didn't he at one stage agree to stay on as a rookie, even though he had been offered a contract at the Crows. The rookie draft certainly has been good to us.

It's Scott Weiland, he's a genius, albeit seriously flawed. I don't think Velvet Revolver would have gotten anywhere without him. In fact from memory I think once he left VR they were unable to get another record contract. Jack Jack 1.5

Wow, EMF, that brings back memories. I remember a few of the UK groups at the time. Pet Shop Boys, East 17, KLF. How good is Youtube for a trip down memory lane! Jack Jack 1.4

Haha, yes. reminds me of the Seinfeld Kramer painting quote "He is a loathsome, offensive brute. Yet I can't look away". Actually now i think about it, one of my must watch shows of the week is Sunday Best on ABC. A collection of the best documentary's. The series started of with the brilliant doco's The Wave and Hoops Dreams. Last week was The Agony And Ecstasy of Phil Spector. I highly recommend it, still available to watch on ABC Iview.

I can't, in good conscience, not put one up for these guys, Stone Temple Pilots. They're right up there for me, probably my favourite band. I just don't think they've got a bad song in them. And after years and years of waiting finally got to see them live earlier this year. Scott Weiland managed to pull himself together for long enough and made it this time. It was my first time at Festival Hall, but was truly amazing. I think I was like most of the crowd there and been hanging out to see them for the last 15 odd years. The place just went berserk. The audience completely drowned out the band during Interstate Love Song, just amazing. Afterwards I was chatting to my old man about it. He tells me he snuck out of boarding school to watch Louis Armstrong there. I thought that was a pretty cool connection. And after further discussion we agree that they were probably still the same seats (the place doesn't look like it's changed for decades). I hear they've got a new album out in the new year, can't wait, Jack Jack 1.3

I did the same with Sons of Anarchy and Breaking Bad. Very easy to get sucked into both (and Entourage), although the new season of SOA seems a bit too contrived. Still very watchable though. My tip for anyone looking for a laugh is It's Always Funny In Philadelphia. It's an absolute pissah, Danny Devito is priceless in it, really makes the show.

I still find it quite incredibly that in the year or two lead up to this disaster that nuclear power was being pushed as a clean/green alternative. I'm all for eliminating pollution and our degradation of the earth, but how anyone can believe that nuclear power is a viable alternative is just beyond me.

Here's one from The Rapture. The theme to the series Misfits. They don't seem to have released a video with this song, so the best i could find is an unofficial little story/clip. Jack Jack 1.2

Haven't heard Shinedown before. Nice. Here's one from the ol' Pink Floyd. First album/single of the post Roger Waters era. Funnily enough it's about Waters. I remember hearing this as a kid and for some reason or another associating it with Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Now I know that Dave Gilmour and Douglas Adams were good friends, Adams actually came up with the Division Bell title for Gilmour, but I can't actually find any link with this song and Hitchhiker's Guide. Maybe it's just my mind playing tricks on me? Jack Jack 1.1

Some great songs on here. Nice work. I'm not sure I've heard Incubus before. In any case, that songs is sweet! I was listening to some of The Darkness last night. Thought I'd add one of their songs to the list. Video was filmed in the Blue Mountains. I see an element of Spinal Tap in these guys. At least that would explain why they make me laugh. Jack Jack 1.0 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YGPyUSVtpZM BTW was that Pia Miller in the Pete Murray clip?

The clock shows the countdown in different units. They're not added together.

GWS got the first half dozen picks in the Rookie draft last year. I'd be surprised if they got the same again this year.