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Sometimes he winds me up, but to be honest the opening monologue in yesterdays Golden Globes 2011 was fantastic!!!

Hollywood really does need to get a grip and lighten up!

Whhhhaaaaaaaaaa!!!!

That was my reaction after watching a Family Guy episode that we recorded from a couple of days ago (it was a repeat from an older one first shown a couple of years ago).
Anyway, the episode was “Not All Dogs Go to Heaven” (Season 7, Episode 11). In it, Meg becomes a rather extreme Christian, and in the process ‘outs’ Brian as an Atheist. This results in him being shown on the news, described as “Worse than Hitler“, and then Mayor West announcing…

Ahh, shocking to say the least. I’d rather have a terrorist living in our midst. At least they believe in a God, even if it’s a smelly brown God.

Cringe-worthy, but amusing.
However, what’s rather freaky is that two days later (the repeat showing was on BBC Three on September 14th 2010), the Pope arrives in the UK, and then starts banging on ‘extreme secularism’ and ‘militant atheism’, and implying that the Nazi regime was bunch of atheists, and thus seemly implying that all atheists are too!
That is rather spooky, the timing if it all.

Very clever Nike, very clever.

As I was driving to work yesterday, I had Chris Moyles (BBC Radio 1) playing where they we chatting casually about ‘song of the week’. He then mentioned (casually) this old dutch progressive rock song that has appeared in the iTunes top 40, six minutes long featuring crazy yodeling, a flute solo and an accordian solo.
They played some of it as well. Bonkers, my god, it’s bonkers. But I thought, it’s pretty catchy so made a note to myself to dig it up and download it.

So, here it is… ‘Hocus Pocus’ by ‘Focus‘.

Bonkers yes? Then check out this live version!!!! (hmmm, I’m sure they didn’t take any drugs before this performance )

Genius… and then I find out that little bit of extra info.
I never realised at first Nike had decided to take this song, mix it a little bit and us it in a World Cup 2010 advert. Now, that explains why Chris Moyles had found this song out of nowhere (lets face it, it’s a pretty obscure band).
Nice bit of viral advertising going around the place there Nike.

You’ve gotta give it to them, Nike do know how to do advertising.

… mind you, still love this song.

Why the hell have I bothered with it for the last year or so?

I guess the last day or so has been a bit of an epiphany, where I realised Facebook really is a pile of shite!
I mean really, what’s the point of the stupid applications which people waste their time playing on (come on, surely there are more interesting things to do), the aquisition of ‘friends’ who aren’t really your friends (who you never kept in touch with after school, why is Facebook any different) etc etc.

So, today, the process of Facebook Account 切腹 (Seppuku) has started.
Since I don’t trust Facebook to clean up properly, I guess I’ll pollute my account with junk for a month or so, before finally ‘deactivating’ the account.
Also, since Facebook are spoil-sports and banned things like Seppukoo and Web 2.0 Suicide Machine, I’ll have to do this the long winded manual way.

PS: Family, real friends etc…. don’t worry. I’m not ‘real-life’ suicidal, just Facebook life suicidal.