KT says:
March 15, 2010 at 10:15 pm
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Happy New Year, Internets….
It’s been a great great year for viral video. Video gum has put together a compilation of some of the year’s best….some of these I’ve posted here, some I totally missed because I was probably looking at pictures of Nicole Kidman leaving hospital in white jeans.
You might also like:
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Sunday Rose and Nicole on Oprah……
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Is it not hard enough getting dressed in the morning? Do I need to leap backwards into my clothes now?
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What is it about Tom Cruise’s wives and the fake pregnancy rumours?
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Nicole Kidman withdraws from her own movie
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There are discrete ways to admit your face isn’t 100% natural. Exhibit A: Jennifer Anniston.
Jaz,
seeing as this thread is quiet for the moment, I’ll reply.
(You other guys, if I’m boring you, please chase another thread, as this one’s been silent since Jaz and I last talked, I don’t mean to abscond with this one, but her being a generation or two younger than myself, it’s illuminating, and poignantly a remembering situation. Anyway.)
Jaz, you’ve reminded me, and though it was such a long time ago, I now remember the feelings. When I saw her a few months ago, all the feelings were gone. But of course I fell in love again, the emotion was still there, but that was just showing that I had good taste in the first place.
As Forest Gump said, we were like peas and carrots, except we weren’t…
So perhaps you and your beau weren’t like peas and carrots either. My fiance and I were more like potato and asparagus, though she was really pretty, but there’s no way in the world we could ever have made a go of it….
It was best I got over the emotion of it, as I’m sure she had to….
it was for the best…sometimes emotions are just chemical, not chemistry…
Easy to say when you’re an old rock’n’roller, and not so easy to hear when you’re a young girl…if you’re meant to meet the right one, you will, and this situation will make you stronger and more resilient, and much more prepared to be with the right person….
That is always a plus.
Look forward! and a final story to finish, I had bought lots of clothes to woo this potato of mine, yet hadn’t worn one particular shirt, a colourful 80s creation, so after the breakup, I picked it up and threw it on, much like the cats’ breakfast or any old shirt, and after the New Year wore it into the theatre to play in ‘Cats’, and the prettiest girl in the orchestra called across the band, ‘look everyone! Gig’s got a new groovy shirt on’!
To me, it was my heartbreak shirt, but to them it was a ‘groovy new shirt’, and I took it that way and got on with my life….
Happy New Year everyone!
Thanks gig, I really felt what you were saying.
Its funny you know, my story is kind of similar. I was engaged to him and we were supposed to get married in March this year. It was a terrible breakup, it didnt need to be. I love him very much, the kind of love that covers a multitude of sins..and I really do mean multitude.
But, he broke up with me and chose to continue breaking my heart I guess out of his own pain and the insecruity he feels in himself.
People only ever hurt one another because of their our own brokeness anyway. It also makes it much easier to forgive when you look at it that way.
I dont know how you could watch her singing, there is something about music that makes emotions much louder and harder to deny!
So thank you for your kind words.
Actually you know, I’m doing pretty good now.
I have been reading this book called “The Shack” by WM. Paul Young. I highly recommend it to anyone and everyone..especially people who are going through, what the book refers to as “The Great Sadness”. Its been quite powerful in my healing.
I’ve so gone off track now lol.
But thank you once again gig!
And..uh…eh..HAPPY NEW YEAR!
Angela
Yep, Angela, always one to fill in the TMI file, my first NYE job was about the time you were born. This must mean that I am wise, and old, or perhaps, wizened and old. Don’t know which. But according to some party-goers last night, I still play a mean bit of rock’n’roll guitar! Not bad for an old bloke…
BTW, I’d rather have been drinking Moet in the pool and enjoying roast dinner, but some of us had to work. Your quote reminds me of a glorious tune that Sinatra sang, ‘You Make Me Feel So Young’, something I learnt after realising ‘Smoke On The Water’ wasn’t the be all and end all of music.
Jaz
Oh how I sympathise. A break-up at this time of year is compounded by the celebrations and forced gaiety. BTW, the correct terminology is ‘give a flying f**k. It gives greater emphasis to the pissed-offedness of the situation. Yes, of course I’ve been there. We got engaged one September, romanced through October, had rough spots through November, and called it off at a family barbie on Boxing Day.
I behaved badly, she was horribly obnoxious, we were both terribly young, and unsuited. By New Years Day her Mum had cancelled the bookings on reception house etc, and returned my keys. They kept the bottle of Glenfiddich I left in their kitchen, and I never heard hide nor hair of her or them since. Till last year, and there she was. The singer doing a show. She still looked as gorgeous as ever, some twenty years later. Of course she didn’t recognise me, but her piano playing hubby asked ‘who is that wonderful sounding guitarist?’ I thought that was pretty good.
We had a chat, I fell in love all over again, she didn’t, and that was that.
I remember that NYE only too well. I was playing in an orchestra at ‘Her Majesty’s’ theatre, some musical about fun and frivolity, earning good money, yet I was the most miserable boy on the planet….
Yet you get over it, with a poignancy you never forget…
Chin up, Jaz…
Sheesh Gig – You make me feel young. I was born in 1971!
For the first time in 30 years I didn’t see midnight. I drank a bottle of Moet in my friends pool – ate the roast dinner I had the foresight to cook earlier in the day and take to their house and crashed at about 9.30. For a grand total of around $90 including gravy! No hangover (I do so love Moet for that).
HAPPY NEW YEAR Everybody!!
Last night, for the 4th NYE running I was either pregnant or breastfeeding a young baby, needless to say I have not seen the midnight display for a VERY long time!
I do look forward to being sufficiently well-rested to enjoy the fireworks again someday, but for now the extravagant celebrations must go on without me.
Happy new year, though!
I agree gig. I went to bed around 10pm, didnt bother to even stay up for the “FIREWORKS” or whatever.
That could be partly due to the fact that i am nursing a broken heart..but still, I really dont care about this anymore.
Who gives a flyin s***
Hi guys, just got home from my NYE gig, a harbour cruise, in Sydney, and it was well, a good gig, but a rather odd night out! For a muso these gigs aren’t fun, but more like a pain in the buttocks. Parking in the city is almost non-existent, often vehicular access is verboten. While hospitality staff can use public transport, the muso has equipment to lug. More than a fun night, it becomes a logistics nightmare.
My first NYE gig was probably in 1971 or thereabouts, and I feel rather old playing them now. But tonight was special! We had a wonderful Russian piano player, who interpreted chords differently, but played great, and a chick singer who sang just right.
At 9 o’clock the family fireworks were wonderful, and at midnight, when we finally got a break, the pièce de résistance, was of course the Harbour Bridge display. Brilliant. Beautiful. Beyond anything of past years. I’ve seen them from Circular Quay while playing at the MCA, from a hilltop in Ryde, and from many vantage points around the harbour.
But there is no better way to see them than from where you are at the time. The TV is just as good as being there, the soot and grime may be more real, but the spectacular is no less when beamed into your home. Trust me, it’s wonderful, it’s hype, but after about fifteen viewings, it ain’t worth the effort.
I don’t mean to be the Grinch who stole New Year, but so many millions of dollars every year for this… and the absurd thing is that every major city in the world does the same thing. Maybe it’s a good thing. An indication of hope, or something, yeah, well, I guess I’m being a Grinch….
We do need birthdays, we do need special occasions, we need to be people, not just robots. But do we need to blow millions of dollars on a display that is almost a repeat of previous years, every year, to feel good about ourselves.
Apparently so.
Some classic funny stuff there – the lion being reunited with the two guys to a Whitney Houston soundtrack still gets me all choked up! Thanks for all your hard work Mia. Happy New Year to every one of you. Well, I’d better go now… this strawberry daiquiri won’t drink itself! Cath xx
Love it!!! Happy New Year to you all
I had no idea Jesus was so rockin…and my friend!
Happy New Year Everyone!
I am actually now curious to see those pictures of Nicole Kidman.
Happy New Year!