Sunday, October 22, 2006

Penalty for celebration

Andriy Shevchenko scored for Chelsea after a big hiatus, got exalted and a yellow card for the celebration. Unfair one would think, but I guess he'd take it. Rules anyway seem unfair when applied in festive situations. A goal in football can be equivalent to a half-century in cricket as far as a non-scoring player goes. Hopefully this will break Sheva's deadlock. Ballack too scored after a long time! Lampard breaks the jinx next? Sure hope so!

Monday, October 09, 2006

Do You Know?

Tommy Lee Jones has an unparalleled dialogue delivery style!
Quoting him (Agent K) from "Men in Black" speaking to Will Smith (Agent J),

"...1500 years ago, everybody "knew" that the earth was the center of the universe.
500 years ago, everybody "knew" that the earth was flat.
And 15 minutes ago, you "knew" that humans were alone on this planet.
Imagine what you'll "know" tomorrow..."

Can't imagine anyone else saying that with an intensity to drive home a point! 
You've got to see it to believe it..  Too Good !!!

Wednesday, October 04, 2006

First release 1976

You've got to listen to this amazing ABBA song. Its called "Crazy World". Firstly its a bit of an offbeat ABBA song since no girls are involved in the singing. Well that easily eliminates 99% of ABBA's songs! Anyway peruse through its amazing lyrics below and enjoy the surprise at the end! It was quite uncanny how I concentrated over these lines hearing them while on my bike amidst Pune's evening rush hour traffic! So here goes-

I was out for the morning sun
Couldn't sleep so I thought I'd take a walk
I was thinking of you and me
And I went to your house 'coz I had to talk
I could hardly believe my eyes
When I saw this guy closing your front door
Had a feeling of emptiness
Like I've never had before

And I close my eyes
Will you leave me, girl?
And I realise
Its a crazy world

As he disappeared in his car
I was stunned and I didn't know what to do
Everything I had ever been
Everything in my life's a part of you
And I just couldn't move my feet
So I stood on the pavement as you came out
You acted as you didn't know
What it was all about!

And I close my eyes
Will you leave me, girl?
And I realise
Its a crazy world

Baby how could you do it?
You just told me lies
Had you been behind my back with other guys?
Baby how could you tell me
There was only me
I was stupid to believe you
I was blind but now I see

Then you smiled and you took my hand
there is something, you said, that you may not know,
There's a couple of men in my life,
And one of them is my brother Joe!
He's been gone for a long long time
But now he's back and I think he's gonna stay,
You'll be seeing a lot of him
He's so nice in every way.

And I close my eyes
Never leave me, girl
And I realise
Its a crazy world!
So I close my eyes
Never leave me, girl
Then I realise
Its a crazy world


Song performed by the ABBA boys - B.Andersson & B.Ulvaeus
(First release 1976)

Lyrics original link