Comments on: TV ramblings (and some other stuff)

By: Luke

Luke — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 10:14:51 +0000

@ Brooke going by memory Yusuf was alleged to have given money to a Palestinian terrorist organisation .
@ Holly the absurd thing was that Yusuf was already on the plane when somebody clued on that is was on the No Fly List . Had he been a genuine terrorist threat the plane would have been blown up already .

By: Holly

Holly — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 22:17:33 +0000

What!? That’s ridiculous! There must be more to it than that!? Don’t they have to have like, proven grounds that the person has actually DONE/PLANNED something before they’re able to detain them and stop them entering a country!? o.O

By: Brooke

Brooke — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 10:13:11 +0000

Holly: yup apparently so. It’s coz he converted to Islam and changed him name to Yusuf Islam, and looks middle Eastern. Apparently that means that he constitutes a terrorist threat.

By: Holly

Holly — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 09:17:22 +0000

^ Why was he barred from entering the US? I heard somewhere that is was because he was an alleged terrorist/security hazard, but surely that can’t be right, right?

By: Luke

Luke — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 10:11:57 +0000

Brooke its a bummer that Cat Stevens stopped singing when he did . When he tried to make something of a comeback he was barred from entering the US .

By: Brooke

Brooke — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 23:10:40 +0000

@Holly: Yep Hallelujah is on the album, it’s awesome. Is that the one you played me on your iPod that time? I didn’t know that was what the song was about – that’s sad. *reads lyrics with new understanding* All of the songs are awesome though, I can’t pick a favourite!
Haha I’m not a huge fan of that Mercy song, for the exact reason you state lol.

@Jenny: Rhoticised IS a great word lol. So is nictitating. And loom

@Luke: I know what you mean about music predating your life – ABBA, Cat Stevens, 10000 Maniacs, Blondie…. the list goes on for me!

By: Holly

Holly — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 10:05:47 +0000

Ok. So I FAIL for having to leave you 3 comments to answer all the questions!

What makes me love a song or an artist…ummm…my answer’s probably similar to Jenny’s, only more in terms of people and things I have experienced personally, as opposed to it being part of a soundtrack or something.

As for Gin Wigmore, yes, she is full of WIN, lots of WIN. I liked her AGES ago, when she was like, 17, and wrote a song called Hallelujah about her father dying from cancer. I don’t know if it’s on that album, probably not, but it’s awesome.

Yes. Duffy. OMG. Never listen to Mercy before you’re going to try to sleep. Ever. It will go around and around in your head and you will not!

By: Jennifer

Jennifer — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 10:47:29 +0000

I’ve picked up more than one book purely because my name was the main character’s, or in the title. I can’t think of many tv characters though… There are a ton of actresses called Jennifer but it doesn’t seem to be that common for characters. =( There was Jenny in Forrest Gump of course, lol, but with the accent it doesn’t sound anything like my name anyway!

What’s making me like songs atm is the associations with other stuff, usually from being in the soundtrack of something. I think it happens cos then the song comes with some emotion ‘built-in’ before I even know the tune. Problem is, I’m ending up liking some really random stuff that I probably wouldn’t have been interested in otherwise!

Hehe ‘rhoticised’ is a funny word too. Rhoticised rhoticised rhoticised.

By: Holly

Holly — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 19:24:35 +0000

Oh! I just remembered there was that random baby on Coronation Street also named Holly, although, considering she was a baby, it’s not like she had much personality to make her likable or not!

By: Holly

Holly — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 00:51:54 +0000

No, I was never really a fan of Dawson’s Creek, lol, I think that craze went over my head.

As for sharing names with characters, yup, Audrey Hepburn’s character in Breakfast at Tiffany’s (a much, much crappier movie than you’d expect, sadly!) is named Holly, and I’m sure there are other ones too, which I just can’t think of right now.