I didn't mind being a Keanu Reeves doppelganger when I was 20 back in '88 but I've now turned into Alexei Sayle........bloody hell, at this rate I'll be one of those Sontaran geezers off Dr Who by the time I'm 50.......any other depressing deteriorations........

.....as to whether there is a name for the phenomenon that can occur if one is a keyboard viewing rather than a screen viewing typist and inadvertently leaves the Caps Lock on at the polar opposite time to when it should be off

eg

rUB ON vIC WHERE YOU USED TO SPLASH bRUT..........

(fOR fRED)

Weird film or am I just not open minded enough ?

.....two people present or one ?

Or is it just a "two faces or a vase thing"?

.....my OCD track for this week which I have played about 25 times and can't stop humming is:

Time Is Tight by Booker T & The MGs

(I picked up a Complete Stax CD for $5 last weekend and this is the first track - love it)

Like a passionate affair it will probably be over next week.

Anyone else do the OCD thing ?

......don't ask me how I got here but I can think of two examples.....answers on a postcard to ATV Land, B1 2JP.

Get yer Saturday morning thinking cap on !

.....Laura Veirs' glasses gone ?

I hope they've got together with Arsene Wenger's - they have been lonely for so long.

.......swept through me today upon flicking through a book my young daughter received for Christmas called "Boys and Girls - A Ladybird Book Of Childhood."

Great artwork of a simpler time. Anyway I then discovered that there's a website where you can order prints of said artwork if you so desire (www.ladybirdprints.com) - well cool.

Might order one of the pages from "Exploring Space" which still sits on the bookshelf with torn spine as it was the best one for me.

Anyway what's your favourite Ladybird book and memory of this very British institution that conquered the world.

So what happened to him then ?

I was just playing "Beautiful Sunday" on this fine, sunny QLD Saturday morning when I noticed from the CD case (remember them ?) that he was born in Birmingham, England (I'm a Yam Yam which is a Brummie to those of you in Latte Land but a diehard different species to those of you in the know).

Anyway I did some Googling and Wiki stated that he was born Peter Lee Stirling in 1942 and is still very much alive (well there's no death date!).

It goes on to state that "Beautiful Sunday" remains the biggest selling single in Japan by an international artist (more than The Beatles ?)

It doesn't appear that there is an official website and further searching only leads to articles on frontline American explorers.

So where are you now Daniel ?

I hope you are still massive in Germany and Japan and continuing to fulfil your artistic yearnings.

Please God let it be that you are not living in LA and pissing the "Beautiful Sunday" royalties up against the wall whilst asking your unshaven self in the cracked mirror hanging in the bathroom of your trailer "where did it all go wrong Daniel?" whilst lamenting on the good old days with Rod McQueen.

Or worse still (having signed some dodgy contract with unscrupulous people whilst you were cruising on the high of being #1 back in '72), living in sheltered accommodation "back home" in Erdington whilst drunken winos ridicule your tales of rock n' roll excess and appearing on Lift Off with Ayshea (whilst we're at it what happened to her ?)

Good luck Boonie...........

......always thought "Go Now" and "Nights in White Satin" but a bit like last year with The Kinks and "Village Green Preservation Society" I have only recently discovered "In Search Of The Lost Chord" and can't stop playing it.

I have found that these late 60s concept/psychedelic albums sound rather twee on first listening but they somehow suck you in and become all consuming.

I tend to find more contempary tunes can be more immediate but have less depth.

Another one that has sucked me in is "The Story Of Simon Simopath" by Nirvana.

Further suggestions welcomed.......

Does anybody remember a BBC Programme from about 1981 called "World's End" ?

Alan Price sang the theme tune and as a 13 year old I used to watch it in my room on my little black and white portable.

I think it was on before Newsnight on BBC2 for half an hour on a Thursday night or something like that.

It probably even wasn't any good but I've Googled and can find no trace.......any recollections ?

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Just watched Gregory's Girl for the first time in many years and although a little dated the innocence and unthreatening nature coupled with the eccentric nuances gave me great pleasure.

I then noticed that after waiting for ages "That Sinking Feeling" Bill Forsyth's first film, is finally released on DVD the week after next.....yay!

I remember watching this on BBC2 on a Sunday night about 25 years ago and haven't seen it since (God all this makes me feel ancient...are we really saying Gregory's Girl is almost 30 years old ?)

Wonder what Dee Hepburn looks like nowadays and what was that penguin all about ?

Yesterday afternoon I sat down and opened the George Formby Collection boxset from Studio Canal which has sat on the shelf for a few months.

Anyway I decided to watch the film "Come on George!" where our hero is the only jockey capable of taming and riding the horse "Maneater".

To cut a long story short (what an apt saying for my predicament) with five minutes to go of the movie (whereby George is rushing to the racecourse to ride Maneater)just after he drives the out of control car into a wall it suddenly and unexplicably jumps back to the menu of the disc.

After a bit of googling I understand there was a fault with all copies of this dvd but I can't find out how the film ends. Can anybody help me ?

Sad I know but watching these type of films does give me a comfort feeling of being back at my nan's on a Saturday afternoon in the Seventies and early Eighties watching a black and white film on BBC2 which seemed to always be Nelson Eddy and Jeanette MacDonald (well it was either that or Eddie Waring commentating on Hull Kingston Rovers v St Helens on Grandstand on BBC1).

I do seem to remember Let It Be being showed on a Saturday afternoon on BBC2 once though.

ps Is it me or does the main man psychopath in "No Country For Old Men" look a bit like Charlie Watts in about 1968/69 ? OK I'll get me coat.

What constitutes a completist or is there a degree of completism ? - but then a collection is either complete or not. I reckon there's an oxymoron here somewhere.

There are bands where I've bought albums and singles on cd then vinyl editions but I draw the line at interview discs or buying the single cd version when I've already bought the version with bonus disc....sounds obvious but I bet there are some people who do it. I have also bought remastered albums with bonus tracks when I already have the original cd.

So what do ultimate completists do ?

Do Beatles completists buy the first few series of Thomas The Tank Engine on DVD ?

Banana Splits finally out on DVD in September....yay

Still working through the Kung Fu boxset.....