View From the Bushes

When I was a child I lived in what might be termed an upper-middle class neighborhood (after I escaped from the ghetto), and so I was surrounded by people who had not only cable but that hippest of all channels, MTV. If I had had any friends then, I might have been able to watch this show and scratch that itch, but bereft of friends or cable TV, I pretty much developed this unrequited love for music videos which persists to this day. As a result, I find very few things as satisfying as opening up one of the many music video archives out there (at the moment my favorite is launch.yahoo.com and playing music videos in one corner of my screen while I work on the computer. Unfortunately I can neither do this at work, nor while playing World of Warcraft.

While I was doing this, I came across a band I had never heard before but which I instantly liked, by the name of Flogging Molly. (They're basically a fusion of Rock and Irish Folk) What was even more surprising is that the lead singer looks exactly like one of my friends (who shall remain nameless for reasons you're about to discover). This is interesting because although my friend is Scottish, not Irish, in all other respects this lead singer is leading his dream life. The closest analogy I could come up with is that movie Twins. This singer and my friend were seperated at birth, just like in the movie and unfortunately my friend landed the Danny DeVito role...

After looking further into the whole IMDB number thing, it appears that films are basically numbered chronologically and that the actors start out in a vague alphabetical order which breaks down and then restarts around #95, but looking through there are a lot of big names in the first set, like Heston and Richard Burton and Groucho Marx. Anyway, that's it for today.

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Ross